House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan spoke out in support of H.R. 452, the Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2011, which passed the Ways and Means Committee earlier today. H.R. 452 repeals the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a federal agency empowered to administer cost-cutting measures in Medicare without Congressional oversight. According to current law, Congress…

Remembered by some as the Republican who joined the Democrats with a vote for last year’s healthcare bill, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe helped write the bill, which emerged late in 2009 from the Senate Finance Committee.  (Although she voted for it in committee to advance it to the Senate floor, she actually voted against the…