An Interesting Cross-Section of New Laws
Posted by Jim Harper
As I finished assembling the WashingtonWatch.com Digest for the week (see it here), I realized that the featured laws represent an interesting cross-section of things the federal government does – though not nearly all of it, of course. Take Public Law 110-315, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007. This is mostly about redistributing [...]
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Good and Bad in the Big Education Bill
Posted by Jim Harper
H.R. 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2008, was passed in the House of Representatives in February and passed the Senate last week. It has been presented to the President, who is expected to sign it any minute now. According to the number-crunching we’ve done using government estimates, implementing the bill will cost [...]
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