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...American dream for all students, no matter what their background or financial means,” Collins said in a statement, before the amendment went to a vote in the Senate. The amendment failed in a 50-50 split. Both Collins and Kennedy said they were disappointed by their amendment??s failure. “By rejecting our amendment, the Republican Senate turned its back on countless struggling students in communities around the country,” Kennedy said in a statement. “It’s wrong to deny them the help they need...
...change to the law in 1999, removing financial aid funds from the money affected by the Solomon Amendment. The House resolution emphasized the need to protect “national security interests” and identified universities as an important source of recruits. The resolution also restated the Solomon Amendment??s requirement that universities accepting federal funds must provide military recruiters access that is “at least equal in quality and scope to that which is provided to any other employer.” When asked about his vote against the resolution, Capuano?...
...Harvard has had an institutional voice on issues that relate to higher education or to Harvard specifically,” Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations, said.“Harvard has supported legislation in the past aimed at revising the Solomon Amendment??that is an issue directly related to us,” Casey said. “But we have not taken a position on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.”However, the Harvard College Handbook for Students does...
...professors attacked the administration’s two principal claims: that the president’s authority as commander in chief permits him to authorize warrantless wiretapping and that AUMF implicitly authorized domestic spying. The professors also argued that the eavesdropping program could violate the Fourth Amendment??s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures...
...that the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) implicitly authorized domestic spying and that a prohibition on domestic spying without a warrant impinges upon the president’s authority as commander-in-chief. In addition, the professors argued that the spying program could violate the Fourth Amendment??s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. The professors also argued that the AUMF’s authorization of spying was implicit at best, while the 1987 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) explicitly prohibits any domestic spying except for 15 days following a declaration of war. “First...