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...Passage of a large piece of legislation that affects millions of lives is never without controversy. The Civil Rights Act resulted in brawls on the Senate floor and death threats against a number of Senators, including Robert F. Kennedy. The 1965 creation of Medicare and Medicaid tied up courts for decades with legal challenges from states. And Republicans called for the repeal of Social Security from its inception in 1935 under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt until Dwight D. Eisenhower's declaration of a cease-fire in the 1950s...
...next day, April will learn that daycare grants have only been cut for Harvard-affiliated childcare centers. Miles’ daycare, back on the 10th floor of the apartment building on Alphonsus St. has no such affiliation. But the person who administers her subsidy cautions that it too may soon arrive on the chopping block. A month later, Sebastián’s department will agree to give him two months of summer support, but of course, he still doesn’t know what he’ll do after he gets his degree. Uncertainty, it seems...
Before Congressman Michael McMahon could take the floor at a seniors' bingo tournament at St. Paul's Center on Staten Island, N.Y., Vincent Navarino grabbed the microphone away from him. "I was glad to see you didn't vote for that health care bill," the 79-year-old retired electrician told McMahon, drawing applause from the 60 or so gamers. "I wish it hadn't passed because it's not helping...
...late March, after most of his colleagues had split for the Easter holiday, Kaufman lingered on the Senate floor, waiting for his chance to address rows of empty chairs, a few pimple-faced pages and the C-SPAN cameras in his latest well-sourced broadside against the conventional wisdom on Wall Street and in the White House. "Unless Congress breaks up the megabanks that are 'too big to fail,' " he declared to an empty chamber, "the American taxpayer will remain the ultimate guarantor in an almost-certain-to-repeat-itself cycle of boom, bust and bailout...
...worries about loopholes that exempt certain highly profitable derivatives from federal oversight. But most of all, he believes the current Senate plan, which relies on the wisdom of bank regulators, won't prevent another crisis. "The sad reality is that regulators had substantial powers," he announced during another Senate-floor speech in March, "but chose to abdicate their responsibilities." (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time...