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...boon for the Obama administration and a strong symbolic stand against corruption. Robert Reich, for one, praised it as a sign of “no tolerance” for “the way things used to be done.” But with Senate Finance chairman Max Baucus expressing doubt that health care reform will happen in 2009, Daschle’s departure will in all likelihood perpetuate “the way things used to be done” in the American health system. And when said system will provide the worst health care in the developed...
...current lame-duck Congress, given Barack Obama's resignation and the pending exits of both Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton (though sources say that in extreme circumstances, Biden and Clinton might consider returning for a vote). Add to that some Democratic defections, such as Montana Senator Max Baucus, who has declared his opposition to the bailout, and Democratic aides say they'll need at least 15 Republicans on board to get a bill passed...
...Grassley and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus sent their own questionnaires in January to the 136 wealthiest colleges and universities in the country...
...said. “We’d have to understand more of what the senator is considering.” Harvard’s ballooning endowment has put it at the center of the school spending debate since Grassley and Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus first raised the issue last year. At $34.9 billion as of June 2007, Harvard boasts the largest endowment in higher education. Grassley has criticized colleges and universities for “hoarding” growing endowment returns instead of spending more on financial aid. But he did praise a slew of financial...
...themselves at many public universities are skyrocketing, even as tuition holds more or less steady. "It's fair to ask whether a college kid should have to wash dishes in the dining hall to pay his tuition when his college has $1 billion in the bank," U.S. Senators Max Baucus (a Democrat from Montana) and Chuck Grassley (a Republican from Iowa), the leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, wrote last January in a letter to the 136 American colleges with endowments of $500 million or more...