Issues

Ryan Budget Saves Entitlements

60 Plus Association Chairman Jim Martin’s statement (Alexandria, Virginia) – “A breath of reality—not rhetoric—is how I describe Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget blueprint to slash $6.2 trillion in deficit spending over the …

Free-Market Groups Support Halting Dodd-Frank Price Controls

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last Friday, 33 national and state-level think tanks, advocacy groups, and center-right activists sent a letter to Congress strongly supporting efforts to roll back price controls on debit card …

Subcommittees on Health and Oversight Hearing on AARP’s Organizational Structure and Finances

Letter from 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin to Reps. Wally Herger and Charles Boustany Dear Chairman Herger and Chairman Boustany: Senior citizens will rejoice over your joint subcommittee hearing regarding the AARP …

Gambling With Our Very Lives: A Senior’s Take on ObamaCare One Year Later

By Jim Martin Published March 22, 2011 FoxNews.com http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/22/gambling-lives-seniors-obamacare-year-later/ The one-year anniversary of the passage of ObamaCare arrives Wednesday and as I reflect on the battle that gave us this bill and …

Can I Draw You a Map? Obama Expands Oil Drilling, Creates Jobs – in Brazil

(Alexandria, VA) – While overseeing a seven-year moratorium on drilling off of America’s coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama has announced billions in loans to Brazil to help them …

ObamaCare Still Bad Medicine

New Prescription Needed Statement by 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin (Alexandria, VA) – One year after the passage of his signature health care law, President Obama and members of his Administration are …

60 Plus Announces Support for Telecommunications Modernization Legislation in New Jersey

60 Plus Joins Other National Seniors Organizations to Support Greater Competition, Innovation WASHINGTON – The 60 Plus Association, a national seniors advocacy organization, joined with two other national seniors advocacy organizations in …

Support Jobs and Competition in New Jersey

A competitive communications market is important to New Jersey’s seniors and to New Jersey’s future. Competition and consumer choice mean jobs.  Jobs now, and jobs in the future for our children and …

Unhappy Anniversary to You: Defund the Stimulus NOW

Jim Martin of 60 Plus asks, “Are you better off than you were two years ago?” (Alexandria, Virginia) — On the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s failed stimulus plan, grassroots activists and …

Key to Saving Medicare Lies with Young and Old Alike

By James L. Martin and Amy Noone Frederick Health Reform Report February 17, 2011 Nancy Pelosi may not have known what was in Obamacare until it passed, but one thing everyone did …