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America's Affordable Health Choice's Act makes improvements in Medicare benefits, lower costs, and preserves choice for America's seniors while at the same time achieving new efficiencies in Medicare -- expanding authority to fight waste, fraud and abuse and eliminating the wasteful Medicare Advantage subsidies to private insurance companies--money that can and should go back to seniors' care. USA Today's editorial on Medicare Advantage details how cutting its wasteful subsidies will help pay for health insurance reform:

Polls continue to show that Americans strongly support a public option because it lowers cost, expands choice, and keeps the insurance companies honest. While amendments adding a public option to the Senate Finance Committee health insurance reform bill did not pass this afternoon, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions bill, along with America's Affordable Health Choices Act as passed by all three House Committees, contains a public option.

"It is a great honor to welcome the President of Tanzania to the Capitol of the United States. He has many friends and fans here because of his leadership -- on education, on growing the economy of Tanzania and his leadership on the issue relating to HIV/AIDS, as well as on the issue of climate change and the environment..."

‘'The decision by Secretary Shinseki and the VA to issue emergency payments for veterans who have not yet received their education benefits under the newly enacted GI Bill for the 21st Century will address an unacceptable situation many of our nation's heroes were facing due to outdated technology..."

A new and improved Recovery.gov launched today to help taxpayers track projects, grants, contracts and loans under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The re-launch includes interactive maps and easy to use tools to help you find detailed information about stimulus projects in your neighborhood, county and state: