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...letter, Summers proposed a number of strategies the U.S. government could use to relax the visa requirements for students from foreign countries like China. He suggested that the government implement the State Department’s new proposal to give priority to students scheduling immigration-related appointments. He also wrote in his letter that the government should consider creating “timeframes for the adjudication of visa application,” appoint an ombudsperson within the State Department to help universities with speciality visa cases, allow university students security clearances, and conduct “comprehensive background checks...
...Iraqis that this transition is going to be well-managed, including the part that shifts U.S. power from L. Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority to a new U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Ideally, the ambassador, who requires Senate confirmation, should have been nominated before now. The Administration must appoint and provide security for the estimated 3,000 embassy personnel, who must get out into the country...
Tensions have been palpable on Capitol Hill since Bush’s two recent recess appointments of circuit-court judges. Democrats were further outraged when the president refused to appoint more than a dozen Democrats to government boards and commissions, inspiring Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to threaten the administration with an unequivocal stall of all judicial nominations. “There has to be a reciprocal treatment of nominees,” Daschle said in a March statement. “It will be very, very difficult for us to move forward on nominations...
...9/11 "nesting" trend, the small home channel has grown into a Top 15 cable network, and now has company including DIY, Fine Living and Discovery Home. A slew of new home shows are reflecting how the house has changed from nest to nest egg, focusing not on how to appoint the perfect family room but how to buy low and sell high in a heated real estate market...
...patients' medical records so they could be used to defend the new partial-birth abortion law from a suit filed by a group of doctors. Still, for pro-choice groups, the logical next step is a big one: to mobilize their members behind John Kerry, who, if elected, would appoint Supreme Court Justices committed to upholding Roe v. Wade...