Senator Barbara Boxer’s levee bill, titled the “Water Resources Development Act,” passed the Senate on Wednesday with overwhelming bipartisan support. The bill would authorize the Natomas Levee Improvement Program and several projects headed by the Army Corp. of Engineers nationwide….
Over time, we dramatically increased college graduation rates, which has driven a 700 percent increase in our adjusted-for-inflation GDP. But, we are still not where we need to be. Only 25 percent of Americans over the age of 25 have a college degree…
The U.S. Department of Education recently announced new rules regarding the Free Application for Student Aid form for 2014-2015 to encompass students from unrepresented families. No longer will dependent students classify their parents as “mother” or “father.”
House Republicans released a bill last week to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling by permanently setting them according to the markets, an idea initially put out by President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal.
Last Monday, new legislation was introduced in Congress that would lessen the number of patent lawsuits, especially in the technology field, where many of these suits originate.
Earlier this year, the American public was polled on the president’s proposals for new gun legislation. People were given a list of initiatives and asked if they would vote for the measures or not. When asked about universal background checks, 91 percent of Americans…
By the definition that terror is or inspires a state of intense fear, a bombing in a public place is an act of terror. That much is hard to argue with. What happened in Boston last week were acts of terror.
