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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Congressional Hearings

Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, along with Max S. Baucus, the Montana Democrat who will become the committee's new chairman in January, announced plans to hold a hearing on December 5 on potential tax abuses by colleges and universities. According to committee staff members, the hearing will not focus on problems with big-time sports programs, but will likely touch on them.


UD is going to try to attend. She doesn't teach that day. Instablogging, if she gets in, would be nice, but she doesn't know whether congressional rules will allow her to...