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Kennedy was not the only member of the 1950 freshman football team to join the Senate??John C. Culver ’54 represented Iowa for one term after serving for a decade in the House of Representatives...
...despite resounding bipartisan support for the House measure, “only a small part of the House bill is currently included in the [Senate??s] defense department authorization bill,” said Sharra E. Greer, director of law and policy for the Servicemembers’ Legal Defense Network (SLDN), an organization that coordinates opposition to the Solomon Amendment and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...past few years have seen a destructive increase in outlandish jury awards for the victims of medical malpractice in the U.S. Multi-million-dollar judgments are undermining doctors’ ability to provide effective health care—and last week’s Democratic filibuster of the Senate??s Pregnancy and Trauma Care Access Protection Act of 2004 hindered legitimate efforts to protect the health care system from the consequences of unreasonable verdicts...
Yesterday, the SJC said the bill didn’t go far enough, and explicitly rejected the state Senate??s proposal of civil unions...
...equivocation by the Justices of the SJC in response to the state senate??s request for an advisory opinion about civil union legislation not only would hurt the gay men and lesbians who are counting on the SJC to stick by what it said in November about same-sex marriage but also would hurt the court itself, by undermining its hard-earned reputation for candor and integrity,” he said...