Jeff Jacoby
THE 110TH Congress convened under new management last week, and in the House of Representatives, Democrats got ready to plow through an ambitious pile of legislation . Among the items on their punch list: increasing the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, expanding publicly funded embryonic stem cell research, cutting the interest rate on student loans, and imposing price controls ... (Full article: 767 words)
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