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...only did the speaker demonstrate the savvy that garnered her the speaker’s gavel in the first place by wrangling the votes to pass a bill whose epitaph pundits had been composing since the notorious town hall protests of Congress?? August recess, but she also, as columnist Camille Paglia wrote for Salon, “conclusively demonstrated that a woman can be just as gritty, ruthless and arm-twisting in pursuing her agenda as anyone in the long line of fabled male speakers before...
...Indeed, congressional leaders would do well to learn from the lessons of the past. Nearly eight decades ago, as the Great Depression was beginning to plunge the United States into ever-greater economic peril, Congress??at the behest of the agricultural and industrial lobbies—passed the highest set of import duties in American history, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The results were disastrous; according to the State Department, “while the tariff might not have caused the Depression, it certainly did not make it any better. It provoked a storm of foreign retaliatory measures?...
...Massachusetts Life Science Collaborative, urged Congress to include increased funding for the NIH, the NSF, and other scientific research agencies in the stimulus package. They cited the job growth that additional funding would stimulate as well as the benefits funding for more research would create in the long-term. Congress??s positive response to this, and other appeals for more funding, is heartening...
...avoided in our policy. “Democrats and Republicans will never agree,” the conventional wisdom declares, “Why even bother?” In the end, some of the past two decades’ most critical legislation was sacrificed to political expediency and Congress??s desperation to get something—anything—done. Comprehensive immigration reform was, after years of personal investment by President Bush, finally scrapped; ratification of the Kyoto Protocol was quietly shelved by the Clinton Administration. At least Hillarycare went down in a passionate and ignoble blaze...
Newly elected members of Congress gathered with students and faculty yesterday for a panel that encouraged U.S. leadership in sustaining global health efforts despite a tough economy. The panel entitled “Priorities in Global Health for the Next Congress?? was hosted by the Institute of Politics and featured Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Barry R. Bloom as moderator. The panelists included Dr. David E. Bloom, chair of the Department of Population and International Health at HSPH; Dr. Julio J. Frenk, HSPH dean designate; and Dr. Rajeev Venkayya, director of the Global Health...