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...When Congress wrote the Build America Bond program into February's $787 billion economic-stimulus bill, many predicted a flop. Nine months later, the municipal-bond program, which provides a federal subsidy to help states and other local governments raise funds, looks to be one of the economic recovery effort's biggest successes. Earlier this month, the volume of BABs, as they have come to be called, crossed the $50 billion mark...
...Kennedy ’54-’56 in August. This endorsement from the nation’s first female Speaker of the House is an important advantage in the race against opponent Attorney General Martha Coakley who, if elected, would be the eighteenth woman to serve in Congress and the state’s first female U.S. Senator...
...Capuano is a colleague of Pelosi’s and they have worked together for a number of years in Congress, especially in dealing with health care,” said Eric M. Hanzich ’11, political director for the Harvard College Democrats. “Once that was passed, it seemed like a logical step for her to support...
...also take issue with Sullenbeger's testimony to Congress that air safety may decline unless pilots are better paid. His presumption is that if you don't pay pilots well you're going to get lower-caliber people coming in. I doubt that very much. What drives people to fly airplanes doesn't have much to do with money: they'll do it at a low price, they'll do it at a high price. And despite the terrible loss of income and prestige that pilots have suffered over the last 30 years, they are still making a middle-class...
...Honest Confusion At least on the level of rhetoric, all the politicians and outside groups that have weighed in on health reform seem to agree: taxpayers shouldn't pay to fund abortion. "No federal dollars will be used to fund abortions," said Barack Obama in his speech to Congress on Sept. 8. His Democratic colleagues say they agree with the same principle, as do GOP leaders. That stance mirrors public opinion as well. A 2008 Zogby poll found that 69% of Americans oppose "taxpayer funding of abortion," which is currently governed by the decades-old Hyde Amendment, the law that...