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Rising tuitions across the country have drawn national attention. Rep. Howard P. McKeon, R-Calif., proposed legislation to penalize schools for large tuition increases. The proposal was withdrawn two weeks...
...single vote. And getting even a “$400 billion” entitlement through the Republican Congress was a challenge. Already we know that (according to Chicago Sun-Times journalist Robert Novak) retiring Rep. Nick Smith, R-Mich., received threats because he opposes deficit spending. With the Bush-controlled House leadership’s endorsement, Novak reported, Rep. Duke Cunningham, R-Calif., and others told the disloyalist that his son—running in Michigan to succeed Smith—would lose funding from GOP loyalists...
...unknown company, that is spyware. Partly due to America’s lack of online privacy regulations, and partly due to the technical nature of this problem, legislators have only just begun to address seriously spyware’s threat to privacy and security. In August, Rep. Mary Bono, R-Calif., introduced a law that would mandate that spyware companies be more open with their EULAs and privacy statements. Yet thanks to public outrage and the threat of anti-spyware programs, many “legitimate” spyware companies already effectively obey this law. The true target of Bono?...
...letter, spearheaded by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., maintains that “the length and degree of punishment” inflicted on Jianli “has already far exceeded his transgression...
Harvard—which recently announced that undergraduate term bills will increase by 5.5 percent next year—would be one of many schools targeted by the measure, proposed in a speech last month by Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif...