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Mar 4, 2011

Senate Appropriations Hearing Set For March 9

The Senate Appropriations Committee has scheduled a hearing for March 9 at 9:30 a.m. on funding for the Social Security Administration for this fiscal year and the next. The following witnesses are scheduled to testify:
  • Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security
  • W. Lee Hammond, President, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
  • Marty Ford, Co-Chair, Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Task Force on Social Security Acting Director, The Arc (formerly called the Association for Retarded Citizens) and United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) Disability Policy Collaboration
  • Joe Dirago, President, National Council of Social Security Management Associations, Newburgh, New York
Will the House Appropriations Committee hold a hearing on Social Security appropriations for this year or the next? That would give a Republican Commissioner of Social Security the opportunity to tell House Republicans that the budgets they are proposing would wreak havoc at Social Security. That would be interesting.

1 comment:

  1. Since they can't ever get a budget done before the year actually starts, they need to start doing two year budgets.

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