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 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.
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.
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.