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Therefore, the federal government is the only actor capable of offsetting the cuts. However, a vigorous push from Senate moderates Ben Nelson and Susan Collins may keep the feds from helping Boston schools by slashing $40 billion in state aid from the federal stimulus bill. Such Congressional politicking should not be allowed to damage our nation’s public schools. The stimulus package must include enough money to at least partially salvage these jobs and those in other struggling school districts. When state and municipal budgets cannot sustain our public-school system, it is the obligation of the president...
...time, the Obama Administration had hoped to draw as many as 80 votes in the Senate but several spending provisions that would not have kicked in until after 2011 drew fire from both sides of the aisle. Collins and Senator Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat, spent most of the week closeted with 18 centrists, including six Republicans, hammering out the deal reached late Friday. In the end only Collins, her fellow Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania signed on. Collins said she will continue to lobby her GOP colleagues...
...BEN PURKERT ’07 New York City, NY February...
...Stein, Ben withdrawal of as University of Vermont commencement speaker due to extreme unpopularity of among would-be listeners contemptuous of anti-science views...
...Senator Ben Nelson rushed off the elevator on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol and immediately 20 or so reporters took off in hot pursuit. "I'm late for the vote," Nelson called over his shoulder. "I'll come back...