Republican-Led 106th Congress Wins Designation As Most “Senior Friendly” Congress In 40 Years

Republican-Led 106th Congress Wins Designation As Most “Senior Friendly” Congress In 40 Years

The 60 Plus Association will announce at the Republican Party’s 2000 Convention in Philadelphia that it has designated the 106th Congress as the most “senior friendly” in 40 years.

Seniors And Global Warming

The Kyoto Treaty By James L. Martin “Good afternoon. I am president of a national, non-partisan senior citizens’ advocacy group, the 60 Plus Association. Our role is to look at public policy from the perspective of how it would assist seniors to better enjoy their golden years, and be free of the burden of government and higher taxes. Thus, we approach senior issues in expanding freedom for seniors, with less government and less taxes.”

Seniors Celebrate Retirement Of Earnings Test

Today is a “Super Friendly Day” for Seniors. Hailing the vote to repeal the 33% depression-era tax imposed on seniors as a “super friendly day for seniors,” 60 Plus Association President Jim Martin said, “This is as super friendly as it gets.”

Retirement Will Be A “Super Friendly Day” For Seniors

Hailing the expected Senate vote to repeal the 33% depression-era tax as a “super friendly day for seniors,” 60 Plus Association President Jim Martin praised Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO) for authoring S. 2074, The Social Security Earnings Test Elimination Act.

Democrats Still Riding ‘Twin Horses Of Hypocrisy’

“As head of a non-partisan, national senior citizens’ organization, I reacted with cautious optimism when I heard President Clinton propose prescription drug coverage for all seniors,” says Jim Martin, President of the 60 Plus Association. “That caution was tempered and shaped by nearly four decades in this political town.”

Poll On Social Security Reveals: Widespread Support For ‘Personalized’ Accounts

The 60 Plus Association commissioned Kellyanne Fitzpatrick and the polling company to conduct a nationwide telephone survey of 800 registered voters on the subject of Social Security and personal retirement accounts.

Dying Should Not Be A Taxable Event

Eliminating The Federal Estate And Inheritance Taxes Testimony Of James L. Martin, President, 60 Plus Association, Delivered To The Senate Finance Committee, Senate Of Pennsylvania, Monaca, Pennsylvania.

Launching George W. In Politics

Long before he was twice elected governor of his state and boomed for the Republican presidential nomination, well before he was his father’s political trouble-shooter in residence, and even before he made his maiden political voyage as a losing candidate before Congress from Texas in 1978, George W. Bush cut his political eye-teeth as a travel aide for a winning U.S. Senate campaign in Florida.

Personalizing Social Security: Unplugging The Third Rail

Delivered at a seminar sponsored by the 60 Plus Association on the 62nd anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act, Washington, D.C., August 14, 1997

60 Plus Vice President Hank Hough Testifies Before The House Subcommittee On Social Security To Eliminate The Earnings Limits

When I came to Washington as a newspaper reporter in 1962, John F. Kennedy was in the White House, Neal Armstrong had not yet walked on the moon, Strom Thurmond was a Democrat and the problems with Social Security were perceived by few, other than Barry Goldwater.