Medicare
- President Obama
- Rep. Elijah Cummings
- Emanuel Cleaver
- Medicare
- Republican Leadership
- Congressional Black Caucus
- Great Depression
by Joyce Jones
- Medicaid
- Emanuel Cleaver
- Washington Report
- Keith Ellison
- Medicare
- Raúl Grijalva
- American Jobs Act
- Congressional Black Caucus
- President Obama
- John Boehner
by Joyce Jones
- Ronald Reagan
- George W. Bush
- Great Recession
- Social Security
- Mitch McConnell
- Ben Bernanke
- Medicare
- Timothy Geithner
- debt ceiling
- President Obama
- debt limit
- John Boehner
- Tea Party Republicans
- budget deficit
- black unemployment
- unemployment benefits
- tax cuts
- Deval Patrick
by Derek T. Dingle
- Vice President Joe Biden
- Medicare
- Planned Parenthood
- $4 trillion
- $5.8 trillion
- Nancy Pelosi
- Capitol Hill
- Congressional Budget Office
- deficit reduction plan
- president barack obama
- George Washington University
- Medicaid
- Paul Ryan
- Bush Tax Cuts
- tax cuts
by Derek T. Dingle
- Rep. Allen West
- Democrats
- Rep. G. K. Butterfield
- White House
- Senior White House Advisor David Plouffe
- Medicaid
- House Speaker John Boehner
- Medicare
- House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan
- Planned Parenthood
- government shutdown
- GOP
- Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emmanuel Cleaver
- President Obama
- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor
- Pell grant
by Joyce Jones
- Medicare
- House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan
- Congressional Black Caucus
- Pell Grant program
- Social Security
- energy assistance for the poor
- White House
- Community Development Block Grants
- president barack obama
- black unemeployment. poverty
- Medicaid
- The Urban Institute
- Washington Report
- FY 2012 federal budget
- $1.1 trillion deficit reduction
- House Speaker John Boehner
by Joyce Jones
