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Another feature of the House bill involves changes to the Pell Grant program. The income level to qualify for Pell Grants would be raised from...
...addition, the minimum Pell grant would be raised from $200 to $400, and the maximum Pell Grant would be raised from...
...Yugoslav generals got the idea that the West did not care about the declarations of independence," says Wolf Oschlies, a policy analyst at the Federal Institute for International Studies in Cologne. "So they attacked." Not only right-wing conservatives but even liberal democrats like Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell asked the White House to give more support to the embattled republics. "The U.S. would not be true to its national values if it did not line up foursquare in support of democracy," said Pell. "It would be better if the Yugoslav peoples could find a way to live together...
...Some guy approached the stage, took off his robe and accepted his degree while he was stark naked," Wilson says. "He shook hands with the dean and walked passed Liz Claiborne and Senator [Claiborne] Pell [(D-R.I.)] without wearing anything--and no one even blinked an eyelid at the whole thing. I thought it was hilarious...
...coalition of strange bedfellows is starting to line up behind Moynihan's plan. The bill's co-sponsors include liberal Democrats, like Hawaii's Daniel Inouye and Rhode Island's Claiborne Pell, and conservative Republicans, like Orrin Hatch of Utah and Steve Symms of Idaho. But Moynihan still faces obstacles -- not least the Democratic House leadership. Pointing to the yawning federal deficit, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski argues that "the last thing we should be doing is cutting taxes." Speaker Tom Foley remains on the fence. Senate majority leader George Mitchell, initially cool to the Moynihan plan...