- U.S. Transit Agencies Ask Congress for Help in Averting Service Cuts -- Washington Post
November 18, 2008
Officials are also seeking legislative solutions. The fix being considered would slap banks with a 100 percent excise tax on payments they try to get from transit agencies as a back-door way to recoup lost tax benefits.
- Reform cant wait -- Creston News Advertiser
November 18, 2008
Baucusâ plan also would allow people between the ages of 55 and 64 to buy into Medicare. The Montana senator also would allow most people with disabilities to qualify for Medicare immediately.
- Would Mass. Healthcare Reform Work Nationally? -- The Connection.org
November 18, 2008
Jon Kingsdale, who runs the Connector, the agency charged with implementing the states coverage plan, says he would not try a major health coverage effort on a nation scale without knowing he had broad support.
- Letter: Baucus 'feeds the bears' with health-care proposals -- Missoulian
November 18, 2008
- U.S. Transit Agencies Ask Congress for Help in Saving Financing -- Washington Post
November 18, 2008
Officials are also seeking legislative solutions. Transit officials from New York, Boston, Washington, Los Angeles and Chicago were among those who gathered in Washington yesterday to lobby members and staff. Leaders of 11 transit agencies appealed to Congress yesterday for help in averting service cuts for millions of subway and bus riders across the country because of a financial emergency triggered by the global credit crisis.
