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...those people was also a student group leader (“Harvard College Act On A Dream is a student sponsored group whose purpose is to motivate Harvard students to become actively involved in immigration reform,” according to their mission statement...
...Wyden and Cooper's approach also has a big following among health-care wonks, among them, noted bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel - brother of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel - who has been tapped to play a big role in health-care reform in the Obama Administration's Office of Management and Budget. Emanuel and Wyden teamed up in December to write an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal on the limits of employer-based health coverage. And though during the election campaign Barack Obama criticized John McCain for proposing a plan that, like Wyden's, would make employer...
...OZAWA: We have already come up with a timetable for actions to be taken after we take power. But the general election has been delayed again and again and again, and so we have not disclosed our timetable yet. As for specific issues - for example pension reforms and medical insurance reforms and employment issues - of course we have to deal with those. However, more important is that we have to make fundamental reform in the current government system, in which the government is led primarily by the bureaucracy. We have to replace this with a system in which the politicians...
...OZAWA: Totally relevant. Without this reform we will not be able to create a new Japan. However, I would like add the following point so that I am not misunderstood. I'm not saying that bureaucracy is unnecessary. What I'm saying is that the basic policy course should be set by politicians. And once the course is set the specific policies are supposed to be implemented by the bureaucrats. That means that the bureaucrats, like the politicians, are supposed to do their own jobs...
...TIME: OK, last question: I've read many times that you have always been fascinated by the history of the Meiji Restoration of the late 19th century. Is there something about that period that people can take today and use to reform Japan...