AARP Statement on Passage of Budget Control Act of 2011

by Gary Kopycinski on August 2, 2011

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WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 2, 2011. AARP CEO A. Barry Rand offered the following statement after the House and Senate passed the Budget Control Act of 2011 to raise the debt ceiling. Throughout the past several months, AARP has been focused on preventing cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits for the millions of beneficiaries who have paid into the systems over their working lives: