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No Child Left Behind Revision Moves One Step Closer To Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Hayley Miller | Posted 12.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate education committee completed a bipartisan markup revising the No Child Left Behind Act on Thursday evening. After 13 hours o...

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Civil Rights Coalition But Not Teachers' Unions Harp On Harkin's Education Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.19.2011

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As Senators of the Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee debated federal education policy at an abbreviated hearing Wednesday morning, two co...

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For-Profit Education: Will We Ever Learn?

Melanie Sloan | Posted 05.25.2011

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People looking to increase their marketability in a tough economic climate are being deceived about what an education at these schools will cost, what doors these degrees might open, and the salaries students can expect upon graduation.

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Senate Invites Arsonist to Testify on Cause of Fire... Kind Of

Tom Matzzie | Posted 05.25.2011

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After all that has happened with the financial crisis and the role that short-sellers played in dragging big companies down into the muck, you'd hope the U.S. Senate wouldn't play this role. But it is going on today.

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Michael Bennet Is Securing Our Future

Angie Paccione | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm proud that Bennet has gone to bat for our veterans by co-sponsoring the "Troops to Teachers Enhancement Act," which will expand a program that encourages our veterans to become teachers.

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Dems Threaten Baucus: We Could Take Away Your Gavel

The Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an apparent warning to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), some liberal Democrats have suggested a secret-ballot vote every two...

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A Historic Victory for Health Care Reform

Sen. Jeff Merkley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today we took a monumental step in the fight for real health care reform.

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Hatch Attacks Essential Services for Low-Income Communities Under Health Care Reform

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans must turn on the lights, look under the bed, open the closet door and realize that neither women's health issues writ large, nor Planned Parenthood specifically are the bogeymen.

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All 13 Democrats are voting for new HELP health care bill

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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The HELP Committee has released their final version of a health care bill, including a public health insurance option and a provision for shared respo...

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Kennedy Health Care Reform Bill Released -- Help Us Read Through It

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dropping in at 615 pages is the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's attempt to fix the broken health care system. The HELP Commit...

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