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...Kennedy "is a legendary lawmaker and I have the highest respect for him," Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for President and Kennedy's partner on immigration reform, said in a statement Saturday. "When we have worked together, he has been a skillful, fair and generous partner...
...Warner.) The idea is to reduce compliance costs for business, which is not a crazy idea for two reasons. First, the threat of huge new costs is one reason heavy industries don't support climate legislation. Second, those costs would inevitably be passed on to consumers. But despite generous use of free transitional permits, Lieberman-Warner hasn't drawn much industry support. So McCain went back to the goodie...
...narrower version of the bill last September, and the two houses are currently working on a compromise to send to President Bush. Both the drug industry and large insurers have been vocally opposed, saying the legislation could result in higher premiums for customers. "[The bill] would offer more generous mental health benefits to Americans," said Sonya D. Sotak, director of federal affairs for drugmaker Eli Lilly, "but it risks doing so on the backs of the sickest and poorest Americans." Rep. John Sullivan, a Republican from Oklahoma, admitted the changes could adversely affect the pharmaceutical (a clause in the House...
Harvard's announcement of its generous new financial aid policy, under which families with incomes below $60,000 pay nothing and families making between $120,000 and $180,000 pay only ten percent, was promptly followed by expansions of financial aid at other schools, including a similar program at Yale. Other peer institutions also sweetened their aid packages by cutting loans and expanding funding...
...these schools receive are more than just hefty, the amount of money schools would be required to give under this tax would often be even greater. For example, under this law, Harvard would have to pay $875 million dollars of its current $34.9 billion endowment, which dwarfs the recent generous donation of $100 million from David Rockefeller ’36. Although other Massachusetts schools don’t boast as large an endowment as Harvard, they would still suffer under this law. MIT’s endowment is close to $10 billion, which would force them still...