America's homeowners deserve reform — as things are now, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), the federal law which is supposed to protect the homeowner, could be better called the Real Estate Special Interests Protection Actt — and thanks to Mr. Woolley and to FORBES, reform may be a little closer.
Americans deserve reform that is real -- not smoke and mirrors.
"After a decade of government and independent reports calling for reforming the corps and pointing out stunning flaws in corps projects and project studies, and after the tragic failures of New Orleans levees during Hurricane Katrina, the American people deserve meaningful reform," Mr. Feingold said in a speech on the Senate floor.
But tort reform deserves a better test.
Her vow to hold a referendum on political reform deserves credit.
Tax reform deserves objective analysis of the sort these books do not provide.
But if the Republicans want to court moderates and appeal to minority voters like Hispanics, the promise of legitimate and humane immigration reform deserves to be near the top of the president's agenda for a second term.
"I don't think it deserves any immediate reform," she said last week: in her view the gallows are needed "to punish certain very serious crimes".Calls for a review have grown since the release earlier this year of Iwao Hakamada, a 78-year-old who spent 45 years of his life in a toilet-sized cell awaiting execution.
Their message is that comprehensive immigration reform deserves a vote in the House, and that any legislation must allow unauthorized immigrants to seek full equality as Americans — not, as some Congress members are proposing, to remain a permanent underclass of provisional, deportable, disposable laborers.
Thus, the debate over filibuster reform deserves more than platitudes from a middle school civics curriculum.
