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    Financial Transactions Tax Is Back – Again

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    February 28, 2013 at 11:30 am

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    Two Members of Congress are reportedly trying again to impose an excise tax on certain financial transactions—i.e., the “Robin Hood tax.” A financial transactions tax can take several forms, but the version proposed by Senator Tom Harkin (D–IA) and Representative Peter DeFazio (D–OR) in the last Congress would have charged … More

    Senate Committee on Track to Make No Child Left Behind Even Worse

    October 25, 2011 at 12:30 pm

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    From left, Republican Conference Chair Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., ranking member, and Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, conduct a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee markup in Hart Building of legislation to reauthorize the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act" on October 20, 2011. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

    If you think No Child Left Behind (NCLB) isn’t working, what Senators Tom Harkin (D–IA) and Mike Enzi (R–WY) have in mind for the nation’s schools is only going to make things worse. In an attempt to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education (ESEA) Act of 1965 for a ninth … More

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