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...party-line commitment now trumps the duty to hometown voters. Representation in Congress is no longer vested in pushing constituency interests, which are now being marginalized by national party politics. In fact, the ill-fated “Cornhusker Kickback” represents the rare hat tip to a congressman??s constituents in the last year. Kudos, Senator Ben Nelson, for trying...
...speech by Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, who has not publicly come out in favor of a public health insurance option. Harvard students were among the first to begin a chant of “Public option: do we have your vote?” that eventually drowned out the Congressman??s speech and led him to leave the microphone...
...Another service at Harvard that deserves praise is the Institute of Politics’s Director’s Internship Program. Through the IOP, students can apply for internships in politics or public service, ranging from interning at a congressman??s offices to working for Politico. This year, a record 375 students applied for a Director’s Internship. Students clearly have an interest in working for such organizations, and the opportunities afforded to them by the IOP are commendable...
...Sikora, who worked in her congressman??s office in Washington this past summer, started a Facebook group to give her friends from high school information on how to register to vote in Pennsylvania...
...doubt most denizens of the Ivory Tower laughed off Mr. Hunter’s affront to academic freedom. This very newspaper published a staff editorial parodying the bill as a simple-minded and jingoistic sop to the congressman??s far-right constituency. Academic freedom—or, more precisely, the freedom for academics to say, and host forums for others to say, the most outlandish things—has become such an unexamined prerogative that few find it necessary to defend...