Commentary AARP to Supercommittee: Protect Health and Retirement Security for All Americans by Gary Kopycinski on August 11, 2011 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Commentary: Heteronormativity: Grappling with Straight Privilege March 24, 2026 Former Park Forest Mayor Ostenburg Implores Chicago Cardinal Cupich to Care for St. Irenaeus Property December 16, 2025 An Angel Now Guards Our Friends in Blue: Park Forest Mourns the Loss of #204, Detective Tim Jones December 4, 2025 WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2011. AARP CEO A. Barry Rand offered the following statement after the House and Senate nominated members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction: