For these families, the party of Grover Norquist's no-tax-hike pledge has no sympathy.
He has signed the Grover Norquist no-tax-hike pledge and endorsed Ryan's winner-take-all economics.
The measure would not violate the no-tax-hike pledge that many congressional Republicans have taken because it is coupled with tax breaks for businesses elsewhere, including a research-and-development tax credit and tax breaks encouraging small businesses to buy business equipment.
Armando Villa became dehydrated July 1 during a mandatory hike while pledging for Pi Kappa Phi.
Villa became dehydrated July 1 during a mandatory hike while pledging for Pi Kappa Phi, which has since been shut down.
Last August, a student death during a fraternity pledge hike at California State University, Northridge, was linked to hazing.
In just the past few months I've read stories about hazing that included new recruits swimming in a pool of beer, vomit and urine, a student dying after collapsing during an 18-mile pledge hike and pledges bobbing for alcohol nips in a toilet and eating cat food.
The U.S. Federal Reserve opted on Wednesday to hold interest rates at 1958 lows, but edged toward an eventual rate hike by altering a pledge it made in August to keep rates low for a "considerable period".
Trudeau's cabinet, an equal mix of neophytes and old guard, will have the daunting task over the next four years of enacting the Liberal leader's promise of "real change" — his campaign slogan — but they will also need to deliver on Trudeau's commitments for his first 100 days in office, which includes the potentially-controversial pledge to hike taxes on Canada's richest one-percent.
The company said it was an unprecedented time for Britain's energy sector, amid public fury about sharp price hikes and Ed Miliband's pledge to freeze bills if Labour wins the next election.
President Barack Obama, while campaigning in 2008, pledged to hike the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour and index it by the end of 2011, "to make sure that full-time workers can earn a living wage," as he said on his transition website.
