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Meredith M. Lanoue ’08, a former member of the Resource Efficiency Program (REP)—one of several student groups under the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, described the news as “wonderful” and “not surprising...
...have made great strides in the last couple of years, but there is always more that can and should be done,” REP Co-Captain Hayley J. Fink ’08 said...
...congressman back home, Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), is a similar ideologue. He voted against emergency funding for the victims of Hurricane Katrina because of a tiny amount of pork in the bill, paying no mind to the fact that people would not receive much-needed money if the bill didn’t pass. He voted against the Voting Rights Act because it allows ballots to be printed in non-English languages, and was only one of four in the entire House of Representatives to vote against unemployment benefits...
...Internet and Society and of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, is exploring the possibility of a bill that will remove congressional limitations on online gaming. In 2006, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, barring U.S. banks from transferring money to online gaming companies. But this April, Rep. Barney Frank ’61 (D-Mass.) introduced a bill that would legalize the $13 billion Internet gambling industry and bring it under the jurisdiction of the federal government. On Monday, Nesson, a specialist in cyberlaw, attended a meeting with Frank in Washington to discuss the measure...
...relic of the wild frontier past that allows mines to stake claims on almost any federal land. Since the law's enactment in 1872, the U.S. government has given away more than $245 billion in mineral reserves through patenting or royalty-free mining, says Rep. Nick Rahall, the West Virginia Democrat who is behind the new bill. Compare that, he says, to the $35 billion the Treasury has reaped from coal, oil and gas produced on federal lands between 1994 and 2001 alone. "So with that scenario," says Rahall, "we are indeed Uncle Sucker...