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More information on open enrollment for Medicare beneficiaries is available at https://www.Medicare.gov. Or, if you have questions, e-mail Rep. Doggett at Lloyd.Doggett@mail.house.gov.
by ANDREW CHUNG / KVUE News
When Linda Hutson looks at photos of her late dad, Army Corporal William Earl Shults, the memories are there.
"I just thought my daddy was a skinny kid. I didn't know he had been in a prison camp when some of these pictures were made, just months before," Linda said.
Corporal Shults was in that prison camp following the infamous Bataan Death March.
Health consumers to start feeling effects
By Alison Young
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Several key consumer protections under the nation's new health law begin taking effect Thursday — six months after its enactment.
Insurers can no longer set a dollar limit on the amount of care they'll provide over a person's lifetime or deny coverage to sick children. Young adults can stay on their parents' health plans until age 26. And consumers get greater rights to appeal insurers' decisions.
During his questioning, he also made clear that while he shares the view that in this time of growing deficits, we must be ferreting out wasteful spending, this federal support for education is not where cuts should be made:. "I have heard this view echoed loudly by some inTexas who seem not only interested in takingAmerica back but taking it backward. If parents [and states] could shoulder all of these responsibilities, these loan programs wouldn't have been set up by President Eisenhower and others on a bipartisan basis back in the 1950s."
During his questioning, he also made clear that while he shares the view that in this time of growing deficits, we must be ferreting out wasteful spending, this federal support for education is not where cuts should be made:. "I have heard this view echoed loudly by some inTexas who seem not only interested in takingAmerica back but taking it backward. If parents [and states] could shoulder all of these responsibilities, these loan programs wouldn't have been set up by President Eisenhower and others on a bipartisan basis back in the 1950s."
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Department of Education to reject his improper request. As Rep. Doggett explains in an earlier statement, 'Texas still has the potential to access federal funds that the Department continues to hold for localTexas schools... This struggle is not about more spending; it is about ensuring that the federal spending we already have is used for the purpose for which it is intended—in this case strengthening public education.
During four previous years, readers of the Austin Chronicle have named him "Best Elected Official," and during another year he was named "Best Unsung Hero." "With a number of able officials inCentral Texas, this is tough competition. I am most appreciative," said Doggett.