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...first amendment??entitled “The Officer Transition Exception Act”—will require all UC Executive Board members to seek re-election if they move from a freshman dorm to an upperclassmen House or transfer Houses, and passed with 46 votes supporting the measure and four opposing...
...article revealed the CIA’s practice of allowing employees, like the fictional Jason Bourne, to use their skills in the corporate world (provided they get approval) as a source of secondary income. This amendment?? allows far fewer forms of secondary employment for Agency personnel, which is a serious threat to the strength of our country’s intelligence force...
...Supreme Court recently voted 5-4 in favor of giving corporations and unions freedom to run campaign ads directly supporting candidates for public office. The reasoning behind the decision is that the First Amendment??s guarantee of free speech extends to corporations and unions, meaning they should be able to use their resources at will to support their politician of choice. However, we believe that this decision is a blow to democracy, as the voice of corporations will continue to become unfairly loud in the political realm, drowning out the voices of individual citizens...
...Holy Cross College graduate and bestselling author expressed his support for the national health plan, and also commented on the implications of the “Stupak Amendment?? to the national healthcare bill, which prohibits the use of Federal funds “to pay for any abortion or to cover any part of the costs of any health plan that includes coverage of abortion...
...major point: health care. We certainly appreciate the strong pro-choice position taken by Capuano, who says he opposes the health-care bill so long as it contains the Stupak amendment restricting abortion rights. We urge a Senator Capuano to vote for health-care reform regardless of the amendment??and we ultimately have faith that he will do so. Unlike one of his opponents, Attorney General Martha M. Coakley, he has not ruled it out entirely, saying that the current bill is still miles away from the final version and that many things can change...