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Last Thursday, President Obama and his economic advisers started a locomotive of change. Instead of merely attempting to patch the ailing economy, this comprehensive budget plan promises to “rebuil[d] its foundations.” Saturated with spending projections for health care, carbon-emissions caps, and education, the budget also prudently identifies funding sources, turning what may have been a blunt instrument into a refined tool. In short, the budget is another excellent step toward economic recovery...
...proposed budget is a savvy political vehicle for reform. The federal budget process has two purposes. First, it provides “a financial measure of federal expenditures, receipts, deficits, and debt levels and their impact on the economy” in order to maintain both stability and growth. Second, it allocates the means to fund such objectives. Although these tall orders might ordinarily lead to filibuster for other legislation, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 mandates “fast-track” legislative procedures—limiting debate times and even restricting amendments based on relevancy?...
...many of the issues she had experienced firsthand as a student at the Law School, hoping to improve the student experience that many describe as cold and unwelcoming.Hailed by students for providing free coffee and an ice skating rink—which administrators have pledged to spare from of budget cuts—Kagan has achieved a series of major successes including the completion of the largest capital campaign in the history of legal education and the start of a large-scale construction project known as the Northwest Corner.Kagan’s colleagues and former classmates echo one another...
...young man who brought our discussions to a healthy and thoughtful level.” Fantini said he tried to convince Schuster to stay but ultimately respected his decision. Schuster said that not having to campaign for re-election will allow him to focus on the superintendent search, the budget, and the district’s controlled choice policy. A current student at the Harvard Kennedy School, Schuster said he will complete his Masters in public policy in 2010 and hopes to run for public office in some capacity in the future. —Staff writer Michelle L. Quach...
...need to know what's going on in the secret meetings to know the two biggest challenges are the individual mandate and costs," says Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat who sits on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, which is convening the meetings. Obama's budget also draws some battle lines on these issues: the White House, for instance, doesn't support an individual mandate as Kennedy and Baucus do. Then there's the question of whether the program can really be shoehorned into the $634 billion 10-year budget figure that Obama has proposed; some have...