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Biking with leprechauns
A man rides a 19th century-style bicycle during the St. Patrick's Day Parade held on Massachusetts Street Wednesday afternoon. The St. Patrick Day Parade has been a Lawrence tradition since 1988.
CAMPUS
Inauguration date set for Gray-Little
Tickets are now available for the inauguration ceremony of Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little.
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Gray-Little will be formally installed as KU's 17th chancellor at 2 p.m. April 11, at the Lied Center
Guest speakers will include Gov. Mark Parkinson, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Chan cellor Emeritus James Moeser.
The KU chamber choir, wind ensemble and marching band will perform with the Kansas Brass Quintet and soloist Genaro Mendez, associate professor of
The free tickets must be picked up in person at the Lied Center ticket office, the Student Union Activities office in the Kansas Union or the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce office, 734 Vermont St. There is a limit of two tickets per person.
— Kevin Hardy
JOURNALISM
Students honored in Hearst Awards
Three students from The School Of Journalism placed in the Heart Journalism Awards. The Heart Awards Program honors students for their work in college-level journalism with
scholarships.
Jayson Jenks, a sophomore from Shawnee, placed seventh in sports writing and received $500. Jenks is the associate sports editor for The Kansan.
Anna Archibalb, a junior from Neodesha, placed seventh in indepth writing and received $500
Jon Goering, a senior from Grand Forks, N.D., placed seventh in the photo competition and received $500. Goering is a former photo editor and staff photographer for The Kansan.
Archibald is a copy editor and senior reporter for The Kansan.
Health care bill passes in House
POLITICS
— Lauren Hendrick
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives late Sunday passed by a 219 to 212 vote the biggest overhaul of the nation's health care system in more than four decades, with sweeping changes expected to make coverage easier and cheaper to obtain.
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The largely party-line vote meant President Barack Obama's biggest domestic initiative inched closer to the end of its year-long political and leg-
political and legislative odyssev.
The vote sent a bill passed on Dec. 24 by the Senate to Obama for his signature. The House, however, will consider later Sunday another bill that would make major changes, called reconciliation.
If that passes — and approval seems virtually assured — it would go to the Senate immediately. Should the Senate concur, probably later this week, all the health care changes need is Obama's certain signature.
The $940 billion legislation would make the biggest health care since Medicare was created 45 years ago. Under the new plan, most consumers would be required to have coverage by 2014, and most employers would have to offer it.
Within a year, insurers would be barred from denying coverage to children because of pre-existing conditions, imposing lifetime limits on coverage and dropping
people from coverage when they get sick.
The reconciliation bill makes several key changes to the Senate measure. A Medicare payroll tax would increase of 0.9 percentage points, to 2.35 percent, for earnings of more than $200,000 a year for single filers and $250,000 for joint filers. In addition, such earners would pay 3.8 percent on dividend, interest and other unearned income, starting in 2013.
"Illness and infirmity are universal, and we are stronger against them together than alone."
The bill also provides more help with insurance premiums
REP. STENY HOYER House Majority Leader
for lower- and middle-income consumers and expands Medicaid funding to states.
"I know that this bill is complicated," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. "It's also very simple. Illness
and infirmity are universal, and we are stronger against them together than alone. Our bodies may fail us. Our neighbors don't have to."
Republicans warned the plans impact would reverberate beyond health care policy.
"Make no mistake about it, we're not just here to pass a health care bill. We're being asked to make a choice about the future path of this country," said Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the top Republican on the House Budget Committee. "The philosophy advanced on this floor by this majority today is so paternalistic and so arrogant, it's condescending."
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