Here’s a selection of articles the Federal Relations team is reading this week.
SXSW – An overview of the big issues heard at SXSWEdu. Read it at The Chronicle.
NO! – A response to the Congressional Republican budgets, or 10 reasons not to cut education funding. From the White House blog.
We Did It Our Way, For Now – House fiscal conservatives in the House Budget Committee managed to muster enough votes to pass their budget proposal. It was 24 painful hours of stops and starts, failed whip counts (from the Republican Whip Steve Scalise) and much drama. Read about the drama at Roll Call.
Schock & Awe – Congress lost one of it’s youngest Members (and avid Instragrammer), Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL) this week in what has been a slow spiraling discover of increasing malfeasance. The final straw? Milage reimbursements. His decision to resign was so quick, that Speaker Boehner heard about it at the press conference (and probably his staff too). Read about Rep. Schock’s political last hours at Politico.