The bill also reforms the Medicaid program and improves quality and access for some of the most vulnerable Americans.

They have attacked private long-term care as deceptive, vulnerable to inflation and appropriate only for the most affluent Americans, perhaps less than 20 percent of the aging population.

Yet I know I am as vulnerable as they before the big-boned, fair-skinned white Americans.

It would reduce debt, foster economic growth, facilitate lower interest rates and more greatly protect vulnerable Americans.

Republicans, Mr. Watts said, "commit ourselves to the most vulnerable Americans" through welfare reform.

Democrats, however, attacked the budget resolution as a missed opportunity to put the nation's fiscal house in order and address the needs of the most vulnerable Americans.

The extent to which the most vulnerable Americans are being targeted is appalling.

Yet his public persona remains that of wartime president - the man standing in the Manhattan rubble - flying by as desperate and vulnerable Americans suffered.

Race-baiting is a smokescreen that hides how vulnerable Americans really are.

Any deficit deal that cuts food stamps but pampers the wealthy is not only bad for the most vulnerable Americans, but damages our fiscal health.