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The questions are an eclectic group--from cutting income taxes to prohibiting greyhound racing to creating a constitutional provision preventing convicted felons from voting. But millions are being poured into the campaigns, with over $2 million being spent to defeat a health care initiative alone.
A third bill, the Secret Evidence Repeal Act, would have removed another provision of the 1996 law that violated basic principles of judicial fairness. Under the 1996 law, immigrants can be deported without being allowed to see the evidence on which their deportation is based, depriving them of all chance...
Finally, there are some issues on which the American people do not have the time to wait for congressional action. The Innocence Protection Act, which has scores of co-sponsors from both sides of the aisle, has been stuck in committee since its introduction. The bill would ensure the testing...
Microsoft's most recent tactical maneuvering also gives strong reason to doubt its interest in an expeditious appeals process. The company's proposed timetable for the appeal includes a more than five-month window in which to file documents and a provision for allowing briefs to be more than four...
Fifth and finally, such a partial privatization of Social Security would be regressive. Current Social Security benefits provide higher returns to lower-income individuals; that would not be the case in individual accounts. Placing money in private accounts would undermine the concept of a system for common provision. So far...