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...legislation. Day called the new law “the right step towards the advancement of education in the United States, and a bill solely drafted to help students in need.” The bill, known as the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, passed with significant bipartisan support. To pay for the increases in aid, the $20 billion previously earmarked for private banks and lenders will be redirected toward federal grants and subsidized loans. Some advocates for the lending industry have criticized the legislation, arguing that it would drive up interest rates for students with private loans...
...with the America of 2007-- and finding the modern version wanting. There was a clear-eyed quality to the U.S. commitment to space and a frank understanding of what it would take to get there. This wasn't an effort built on tax credits for willing industries or bipartisan earmarking. It wasn't a program financed by cooked books or off-budget accounting. Most important, it was sustained by appealing not to what scared us but rather to what elevated us. There's no need to invoke WMD when...
...fight over appropriations is just one of two big confrontations brewing between the White House and the Democrat-controlled Congress. This week both chambers are expected to pass bipartisan legislation to expand state health care programs for children (known as SCHIP) - a move Bush labels as the first step toward socialized medicine. He says he'll veto that bill as well...
...even dedicated fiscal conservatives think Bush's threatened veto of the bipartisan plan to increase SCHIP is misguided. "I don't think I would do it if I were President," Weyrich said. "It's not worthwhile in terms of political gain...
More than three years after the release of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission’s report in the summer of 2004, a lot of titles have been juggled and a lot of agency flowcharts have been reworked, but we only have one hint that the American security apparatus is better at handling its monumental task: We haven’t been hit again...