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...Congress passed last week. Beginning a year ago, Gingrich gave PowerPoint briefings to top Republican officials like Vice President Dick Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate majority leader Bill Frist on market reforms for Medicare. Late in October, Gingrich worked with AARP to circulate a compromise proposal on Capitol Hill, much like the one eventually passed, for Medicare to compete with private insurance plans in a test program. Gingrich has his own health-care think tank and has advised AARP on technological innovations, such as websites for seniors to shop for the cheapest drugs as they...
...Medicare reform bill is the latest effort in a decades-long battle to contain MEDICAL COSTS. TIME delved into the issue during the Carter presidency, when another health-care debate raged on Capitol Hill...
Strauss is the founder and director of The Capitol Steps, a musical theater troop that satirizes the latest political headlines and makes its way from Washington to the 50 states to public radio and television—with a yearly stop in Sanders Theater. The show packed a full house in Sanders Theatre last Saturday, as Cambridge Democrats and a few hardy Republicans flocked to see Washington as it really is: vaudeville...
...Capitol Steps will be back at Sanders on April 10 with up-to-date songs, impersonations and jokes about the French...
...kept their gigs private. “We asked all the reporters to say nothing about it,” says Strauss. “We were all political people.” Only after Percy lost his Senate seat in 1984 did the Steps cut loose from the Capitol, hit the nightclubs, and finally go on the record. But they never lost their Washington fan base: to this day, Strauss insists, their biggest fan is George Bush senior, who’s hosted them seven times. Even Al Gore couldn’t resist joining them on stage once...