| By Uniformed Services Disabled Retirees
This Impacts Everybody (Military and Civilian) Receiving Health Care in the USA! |
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| Please send the following editable message to your elected officials –
Now that the “Super Committee” has been declared a failure, and the Christmas break, the 1st Session 212th US Congress has less than two weeks to stop the 29.4% cuts in Medicare/Tricare payments to physicians mandated by the Sustained Growth Rate (SGR) formula to be imposed as of January 1, 2012 The SGR is a flawed formula that continues to reduce physicians payments that the Congress has provided temporary suspensions to restore the reduction and sometimes provide a slight increase. But the situation is becoming more critical as doctors are now refusing to take new Medicare/Tricare patients, others simply have not renewed their Medicare practice, they basically require payment in advance for services. read on |
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Legislative Watch
Virtually everyone is familiar with the most glaring example of overreach and union pandering, which is the complaint against Boeing.
Despite not a single example of job loss and despite not a single worker benefit in Washington State being lost, the NLRB sued Boeing seeking to have it close its South Carolina plant, displace the workers hired, and return the work to Washington State.
That is Exhibit A in proving the NLRB has become a sycophant for Big Labor but is by no means the only piece of evidence. read on
Kline Questions Board’s Compliance with Committee Oversight
“This announcement confirms what we’ve suspected all along: the Obama NLRB is determined to impose a flawed rule that will cripple American workers’ free choice. The NLRB is ignoring long-standing policies that have served to safeguard the nation’s workforce and preserve the integrity of the board’s actions. It is disturbingly clear that the board’s only concern is advancing an extreme agenda, regardless of the damage it causes our workplaces.” read on
By U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Decisions about our fuel standards are not inconsequential. They move forward an agenda that rewards some energy sectors while punishing others, and at the same time, moves taxpayer dollars right along with those rules and subsidies.
Under the current requirements of the Clean Air Act, the EPA can certify a new fuel for the marketplace as long as it does not increase emissions. As a result, when the ethanol lobby requested the EPA allow a higher concentration of ethanol in gasoline, based on a narrow test by the Department of Energy, the agency determined E15 could be used in vehicles made after 2001.
I sought input from 14 major US Automakers on how E15 would affect their vehicles. They unanimously reported the higher blend would void warranties, reduce fuel efficiency, and cause premature engine damage. Recent testing by the Coordinating Research Council on engine durability also showed that E15 could cause engine failure. read on
House Democrats Vote Against Balanced Budget Amendment They Supported 15 Years Ago
Representative Sandy Adams (FL-24) released the following statement after supporting H.J. Res. 2, which proposes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. This joint resolution was virtually identical to the one passed by the House in 1995. Unfortunately, the measure failed to pass the House today, with some Democrat members who once supported a balanced budget amendment voting against it.
If passed, H.J. Res. 2 would have required that Congress could not spend more than it receives in revenues or raise the debt ceiling unless overridden by a supermajority of three-fifths in both chambers. H.J. Res. 2 also requires the president to submit a balanced budget to Congress, and requires a majority roll call vote for any proposed bill to increase taxes. There are limited exemptions to H.J. Res. 2 including times of war and serious military conflicts. read on
WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has announced the introduction of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (H.R. 3289). The legislation will strengthen provisions of the Whistleblower Protection Act, originally enacted in 1989, for federal government employees who expose abuse, mismanagement, or criminal activity in federal agencies and programs.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is an original co-sponsor of the legislation, as are Rep. Todd Platts, R-Pa., and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., who sponsored whistleblower protection enhancement legislation last congress. Similar legislation was approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last month. You can read a copy of the House legislation here. read on
By American Center for Law and Justice
Many of you know the dangers posed by ObamaCare – the vast expansion of abortion and restrictions on liberty.
Now the true abortion agenda of ObamaCare is even more clear. Through ObamaCare, Planned Parenthood could run a health care clinic in your child’s middle school or high school and receive our federal tax dollars to do it.
The Supreme Court must declare this law unconstitutional, and we need you to stand with us now to make that happen.
Join the ACLJ’s brief to the Supreme Court to declare ObamaCare unconstitutional once and for all. read on
Today the Tea Party Express launched an online petition drive that sends a message to Republicans and the members of The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, better known as the Super Committee: Stop spending and stop raising our taxes!
Reports that the Republican members of the Committee have agreed to a framework of tax increases to replace spending cuts is appalling. The election of 2010 was a total repudiation of the “tax and spend” mentality that has brought America to a fiscal crisis with excessive spending and an out-of-control national debt. read on
The Access to Capital for Job Creators Act, would remove the regulatory ban that prevents small, privately held companies from using advertisements to solicit investors—a Depression-era regulation that unnecessarily limits the pool of investors and severely restricts the ability of small companies to raise capital.
Additionally, H.R. 2930, the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act, would remove SEC restrictions on “crowdfunding” so entrepreneurs can raise capital from a large pool of small investors who may or may not be considered “accredited” by the SEC.
H.R. 2930 would permit “crowdfunding” to finance new businesses by allowing companies to accept and pool donations up to $5 million without having to register with the SEC.
Montana Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg lent his support for ceding more power and authority to the federal government’s emerging police state by supporting HR 1505, the “National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act.” This monstrous bill empowers the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to confiscate to itself tens of thousands of acres of land across the US northern border. This is for “national security” reasons, of course. Gag! read on
