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…
On Tuesday, a group of moderate Senate Democrats — wary that a proposal to scrap billions of dollars of subsidies to private student lenders would cost jobs in their states – urged party leaders to consider alternatives to the student lending reforms moving their way through Congress.
Yesterday, Democratic More…
Insurers and employers could penalize workers thousands of dollars for pre-existing conditions under the Senate’s health-care reform bill, according to a long list of academics, advocates and medical societies, which are pushing for elimination of the provision.
The proposal threatens to undercut a central goal of the More…
The Senate Finance Committee just voted down the second and last public option amendment expected to be offered during the panel’s markup of health reform legislation. The proposal, sponsored by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), would have created a public plan to compete with private insurers on a newly formed marketplace, More…
It came as little surprise when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) yesterday moved to kill efforts to lower seniors’ drug costs by squeezing Big Pharma. After all, Baucus earlier in the year had agreed to a controversial deal with the drug lobby, under which More…
In the middle of June, the White House forged a deal with the nation’s largest drug makers. As part of the bargain — under which the pharmaceutical companies offered $80 billion over 10 years in reduced drug costs to seniors and the government — the administration vowed to More…
Nuclear power is courting some new friends as it pushes for government subsidies in the sweeping climate bill being debated in the Senate.
For the last decade, the biggest players in the nuclear industry lent most of their financial backing to Republican candidates and lawmakers, who have been the strongest More…
You’d think that, granted the bully pulpit, the Obama administration’s secretary of transportation might actually use it when approached by Congress for advice on public transit funding.
But you’d be wrong.
Asked yesterday by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) if the House-passed climate change bill contains enough funding for More…
Here’s some persistence you don’t see everyday from a press corps charged with monitoring Congress: MSNBC’s David Shuster grilling Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) Monday on the relationship between the $223,000 Carper’s taken from insurance companies in the last four years and his opposition to the public plan option More…
The Senate Banking Committee today approved legislation forcing banks to make credit cards more consumer friendly, but don’t mistake this for a strictly partisan issue. While it’s true that most Democrats support the legislation and most Republicans oppose it (the panel vote was 12-11), there are regional nuances in this More…
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