The GOP budget proposes, among other things, turning Medicaid into a block-grant programcontrolled by the states, restructuring Medicare and reducing the top individual and corporate tax rates to 25% from 35%.
Later on, Microsoft aided these "home-brew" efforts with the release of a software development kit and a program that allowed the Kinect to be controlled via Windows.
The guilty pleas entered Wednesday were the first stemming from a two-year investigation of a rebate program at Pilot Flying J, the company controlled by the family of Gov. Bill Haslam and Browns owner Jimmy Haslam.
In one of the best-controlled studies, CpsC researchers in 1978 found that an expensive program that included handing out safety brochures to individual consumers had no effect on lawn mower injuries.
In 1993 -- Clinton's first year in office -- he pushed for the largest increase in the program's history, which the then-Democratic controlled Congress approved.
It was none other than George W. Bush and the Republican controlled congress of 2005 that passed the law creating the Part D of the Medicare program (without raising any taxes to pay for it).
The fear here is that a Democratic-controlled Congress will again squeeze student lenders and attempt to ramp up competition from the direct lending program.