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...nature of the debate itself.Every immigration reform proposal currently being discussed has one common message: those folks ain’t okay. The most tolerant piece of legislation being considered in Congress—proposed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ‘54-’56 (D-Mass.) and Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.)—would help some undocumented workers gain legal status. But the bill would also slap immigrants with a $2,000 fine, a significant sacrifice for families struggling to make ends meet, especially if they are supporting family members back in their country...
...administration’s prime magician, Secretary of Treasury John W. Snow, and it leaves promises of future rises—as early as next year—looming menacingly over our heads. All this, while Senators Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and Susan M. Collins (D-Maine) put forth a motion to reduce cutbacks in federal education spending. That motion failed. And the administration has not increased the debt ceiling in order to buy time to address inevitable future expenses. As baby boomers draw nearer...
Representative Jim McGovern, D-Mass., visited Harvard Friday afternoon to draw support for gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick ’78 and to express his opposition to the war in Iraq. McGovern, who first backed Patrick’s bid last June, was one of the first in a series of high-profile figures to endorse Patrick, a former Dunster House resident. Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., and two former Clinton administration labor secretaries, Robert Reich and Alexis Herman, have also backed Patrick’s candidacy. Patrick served as the top civil rights enforcement official in the Clinton Justice...
...amendment to reduce cuts to the higher education budget and increase student aid floundered in the Senate on Tuesday. Senators Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and Susan M. Collins (D-Maine) proposed an amendment that would provide an additional $6.3 billion to the discretionary spending for education. The increase in funding would have gone towards raising Pell Grants from $4,050 to $4,500 and restoring programs including the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) and Perkins Loans, both of which were eliminated...
Anti-war protesters amassed at the Kennedy School of Government on Friday, when 2004 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass) spoke with former Senator Max Cleland and a group of veterans to a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. While Kerry came to Harvard for the premiere of “Hidden Wounds,” a documentary on veterans of the war in Iraq suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the event took a political turn as several dozen protesters gathered together at 79 JFK Street. “Bush Lied. Kerry Complied. Bring...