At least 257 for-profit higher education institutions receive more than 85 percent of their income from federal student aid. That figure, however, does not include military aid and benefits paid to individuals going to school on GI Bill benefits. In addition, although roughly 10 percent of for-profit college enrollment is More…
DES MOINES — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told a crowd of Republican officials and activists in Des Moines over the weekend that President Barack Obama should have come to Congress before taking military action in the Middle East, as President George W. Bush did for Afghanistan and Iraq.
US. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is again pushing for legislation to require top officials from the Obama administration as well as Senate leadership to purchase health care from the soon-to-be established health care exchanges.
Grassley, who helped write the health care reform legislation in committee, pushed More…
After a spate of requests by Democrats and campaign finance groups for an IRS investigation of a number of section 501(c) organizations accused of abusing their status by engaging primarily in political advocacy, some Senate Republicans are pushing back:
Such a review threatens to “chill the legitimate exercise of
The renewable energy standard introduced by Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) this week now has 25 co-sponsors. In fact, Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) office confirms that he signed on today as the fourth Republican co-sponsor, joining Brownback, Susan Collins (Maine) and John Ensign (Nev.)
Over at The New Republic, Noam Scheiber counts the votes for Elizabeth Warren, the current head of the Congressional Oversight Panel over the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a Harvard Law professor and progressives’ choice to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Any nominee will need 60 votes to More…
With the fate of a scaled-back cap on greenhouse gas emissions uncertain, environmental groups are scrambling to find a way to maintain a bill that would still achieve substantial cuts in global warming pollution. Now they have refocused their attention on strengthening a renewable energy standard, which would require More…
Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) bill overhauling the regulation of banks and financial firms has passed, 59 to 39. In short, the bill makes the financial system stronger by giving the Federal Reserve and new regulatory agencies — including the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and a systemic oversight council — the More…
Talking Points Memo reports that Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, says Republicans are close to supporting Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill. “We’re very close to a deal and there will be a substantial number of Republicans that go along More…
In an opinion piece published in his home state, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) came out against the value-added tax, or VAT, a broad-based tax on consumption:
Those who advocate more government spending need to identify new revenue streams. Instead of cutting back on spending to tackle the looming
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