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Congressional Briefing held at the Mid-Atlantic Social Security Center

The Mid-Atlantic Social Security Center held its 2nd on-site Congressional Briefing for 2007 on Thursday, September 20th. A total of 25 Congressional staffers from all five states in our Region – DE, MD, PA, VA and WV – were in attendance.

Congressional liaison - Anne Gallagher - designed the briefing around suggestions made by Congressional staffers on evaluation sheets from previous briefings. The staffers requested in depth presentations on two subjects - the Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of Disability Operations (ODO) in Baltimore, and Medicare. The morning session consisted of presentations from the Congressional Relations Staff Director of the Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs (OLCA) and three representatives from the Office of Central Operations, including officials from the Congressional Liaison Staff (CLS) in ODO. The afternoon session was dedicated to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and members of SSA’s Center for Program Support. Two CMS representatives participated with the SSA staff. Questions were encouraged throughout and the entire day’s discussions were quite lively with a lot of interaction between the staffers and the presenters.

From the evaluation sheets submitted by the Congressional aides, it appears that they were pleased with the information received from the presentations and enjoyed meeting many of the SSA/CMS people with whom they often work.

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