News of Pending Legislation &
Government Affairs of Interest to the Railroad Industry
Provided by Jim Hansen
President of the
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07/05/08
Oct. 08, 2006 R.R. Retirement Survivor’s Annuities & Public Service
Pensions
May 11, 2006 Report on Railroad Retirement Reform
Apr. 22, 2006 Railroad Retirement Survivor Benefits
Nov. 25, 2005 RRB Individual U/I Account Information is now Available Online
Nov 24, 2005 Year 2006 R.R. Retirement & Unemployment Insurance Taxes
Aug. 23, 2005 Medicare Law Prompts a Rush for Lobbyists
Aug. 8, 2005 Railroad Retirement Age Reductions
July 17, 2005 New Medicare Drug Law – Continuing to Look Like a Bad Deal
June 30, 2005 Railroad Retirement Board – Summary Financial Report
June 11, 2005 New Benefit Year Information
Apr. 1, 2005 Medicare Premiums to Rise 14%
Mar. 7, 2005 Railroad Pensions Barrel Along
Feb. 12, 2005 Amtrak – On the Chopping Block…Again
Feb. 10, 2005 U.S. Audit Faults Federal Regulators on Rail Safety
Jan. 22, 2005 Road Traffic and Your Health
Jan. 19, 2005 NARVRE to Oppose Social Security Privatization
Jan. 15, 2005 Asbestos Talks Stalled
Jan. 4, 2005 Three Ounces of Prevention – New Medicare Screening Benefits
Dec. 21, 2004 Wall St. Tackles Social Security
Dec. 12, 2004 Do-It-Yourself Social Security – LOTS of Questions
Dec. 8, 2004 Year 2005 Railroad Retirement and Unemployment Insurance
Taxes
Dec. 2, 2004 Social Security Warning
Nov. 28, 2004 Bush's Social Security Plan Is Said to Require Vast
Borrowing
Nov. 26, 2004 Applying for a Railroad Retirement Annuity
Nov. 1, 2004 NARVRE Legislative Switch List – November 2004
Oct. 25, 2004 October 2004 Railroad Retirement Press Releases
Oct. 14, 2004 Medicare for Railroad Families.
Sept. 20, 2004 New
Medicare Drug Law – Beginning to Look Like a Bad Deal.
Sept. 8, 2004 More on Amtrak Funding.
Aug. 22, 2004 Insurers Object to New Provision in Medicare Law.
Aug. 12, 2003 Possible Teamster Raid on Railroad Retirement Assets? RRB Rebuttal Added
Aug. 9, 2004 NARVRE Insurance Benefits Explanation.
Aug. 7, 2004 Railroad Retirement Board – Credit & Pay for Time Lost.
July 24, 2004 HR 3767 – Proposed Changes to the Prescription Drug Act.
July 22, 2004 Asbestos Deaths are on the Rise.
July 18, 2004 Railroad Retirement Board – Summary Financial Report.
July 14, 2004 Medicare Law Is Seen Leading to Cuts in Drug Benefits for Retirees.
July 7, 2004 NARVRE – AMTRAK Update.
July 6, 2004 The Senate “Acts” on Asbestos.
June 3, 2004 Prescription Drug Prices Higher Through Medicare Discount Cards than Through
VA per
June 1, 2004 New Benefit Year for Railroad Unemployment and Sickness Benefits.
May 29, 2004 Florida’s Bullet Train – Fund it by Adopting a State Income Tax?
May 6, 2004 Message from NARVRE Director Tom Dwyer about Prescription Drug Cards.
May 1, 2004 Asbestosis Threat (Lung Disease from Exposure to Asbestos).
Apr. 1, 2004 Railroad Retirement Board – Longevity Study.
And…they
thought it was bad back then!
In
1923, former Indiana Senator Albert J. Beveridge was quoted by the press
as follows:
“Government
supervision and interference with life and activities bids fair to break down
popular
self-rule. Consider this appalling fact. One adult person out of every 20 persons
engaged in
business
or industry in the United States is a government agent, official or employee
either
federal,
city, county or state. Another
astounding fact, twin sister of the first, is that Americans
are
forbidden by law to do more things and by law forced to do more things than
were
the Russian people under the Czar or the
German people under the Kaiser.”
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