Word: congress
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...Medicare and Social Security require big structural changes, like privatization, means testing or raising the age of eligibility--even though, back in 1935, when it was set at 65, the average life expectancy was 61. Conservatives now see the fruits of restraint bearing the seeds of future deficits, if Congress approves all kinds of new spending this summer that can't be cut back whether the surplus actually materializes...
...character test, more so than in the days when there wasn't enough money to do anything. Both sides have a long habit of spending money now that won't arrive until later, and promising that they'll cut something without saying exactly what. The fear is that Congress will get too drunk on prosperity to drive the budget home safely--and that's why conservatives aren't so keen about the party in the first place...
...nicotine is so addictive that even doctors who know they should quit can't do so, the plaintiffs argued. They added that the industry has muddied the waters about smoking's risks. For example, six tobacco CEOs told Congress a few years ago that nicotine isn't addictive. Yet tobacco companies also argue that everyone knows cigarettes are addictive and cause cancer...
DIED. JAMES FARMER, 79, courageous, booming-voiced Gandhian who along with Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young and Roy Wilkins was one of the four great architects of the U.S. civil rights movement; in Fredericksburg, Va. Farmer's Congress of Racial Equality provided the nonviolent vanguard for the perilous sit-ins and Freedom Rides to integrate the public places and transport of the South in the 1950s and '60s. Asked by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to postpone some of their actions so that people could "cool off," Farmer replied, "We have been cooling off for 350 years...
EASING ELDERCARE President Clinton in January proposed a $1,000 annual tax break for most patients or their families who pay for long-term care at home or in institutions like nursing homes. Not to be outdone, Republicans in Congress last week pitched further tax relief, worth up to $2,750 a year, for those who tend to aged relatives at home or buy insurance for long-term care. Nursing homes can cost more than $50,000 a year. Republicans hope that by encouraging less expensive home care and the purchase of private insurance, they can cut government expenditures...