“The 60 Plus Association registers its strongest opposition to last week’s vote on the emergency supplemental spending bill for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Association President Jim Martin in a statement after the vote.

Legislative Hearing On H.R. 5304 “Preventing Harassment Through Outbound Number Enforcement (Phone) Act” Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006, “Good morning, I’m Jim Martin, President of the 15-year-old-and-counting 60 Plus Association and I appreciate the invitation to offer comments today on behalf of some 5 million senior citizens we call upon for support. For the record, I have prepared remarks and I’ll now summarize: incidentally, my Honorary Chairman is a former colleague of yours, Roger Zion of Evansville, Indiana.”

Press To Open Up The Outer Continental Shelf For Exploration: Jim Martin Addresses Groups In Houston, Norfolk And Atlantic City. “I’m Jim Martin, President of the 60 Plus Association, a 15 year old national senior citizen’s advocacy group. I’m pleased to speak this afternoon on their behalf…about 5 million senior citizens representing every state and every Congressional District in the U.S.”

“On behalf of the 60 Plus Association and senior citizens all across America, I am pleased to note that H.R. 1898 sponsored by Rep. Gary Miller (R-CA) has gained its 218th cosponsor this week, marking an historic opportunity for the 109th Congress to once and for all repeal the 3% federal excise telephone tax — a tax we’ve referred to for years now as the highly regressive ‘tax on talking.'” said Jim Martin

“The mainstream media and their left-leaning tilt on the war in Iraq tends to circumnavigate all the good news, the hard-won victories and clear signs of progress in our mission there … while simultaneously down-playing what the clear majority of Iraqi’s themselves see as better days ahead.” So said 60 Plus Association President Jim Martin.

60 Plus Association founder and president, Jim Martin, turns 70 years young today. Martin said, “A wise man once said old is someone 15 years older than you are. How true. When I was 30, I thought 45 was old. When I was 45, I thought 60 was old. Now I believe 85 is old, or rather, never old, just old-er.”

60 Plus Association urged leaders in Congress to remove a “windfall profits” tax provision from the Budget Reconciliation Bill, now on its way into conference committee.

60 Plus Association’s dynamic and forever young Honorary Chairman, Roger Zion (R-IN, 1967-75), 84 years old going on 44, moved back to Evansville, Indiana to take life a bit easier. Instead he wrote his fourth book, The Amazing Adventures of Congressman Roger Zion.

Pat Boone cranked out his first No. 1 hit record — a cover of Fats Domino’s “Ain’t That a Shame” — in 1955. He’s been at it ever since, notching 61 hits and earning himself a spot on Billboard magazine’s list of the top 10 best-selling recording artists of all time. Jim Martin, head honcho of national seniors’ group 60 Plus, was effusive in his praise of Boone who became the group’s national spokesperson in 2003. “I couldn’t be more proud of Pat’s accomplishment as a milestone showman if he were my own son!”

Statement By 60 Plus Association President, Jim Martin “On behalf of the 60 Plus Association and senior citizens all across America, I am calling upon the 109th Congress to do what should have been done decades ago — the immediate and total repeal of the highly regressive ‘tax on talking’.”