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Gay Marriage and the Defense of Marriage Act President Obama's administration announced last week that it will no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act in court
Why stop defending it?
What happens now?
"I expect we'll have a decision by the end of the week.." I'd be very surprised if the House didn't decide that they were going to defend the law." Republican President of the House John Boehner in an interview with cbn.com.
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Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt speaks to students at a meeting of the University of Kansas College Republicans. Schmidt, a university of Kansas alumnus, discussed his life experiences and gave advice.
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University Daily Kansan, who printed it. Because of this experience, he says, Schmidt became a journalism student and the editor of The Kansan in the fall of 1990.
He described his entry into the world of politics in a similar fashion: a chance meeting with a staffer for Sen. Nancy Kassebaum led to a job in Washington, D.C. Once in the capital, he sent a resume to Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska after reading about him in a magazine and then worked for him for two years.
Schmidt said jurisprudence is a major factor that informed his legal opinions. He said that nuances and complexities in legal and policy issues were often hard to convey during elections.
Ashley Moretti, chair of University
Schmidt's advice to the students was to keep their options open. He said that he had chosen to attend law school because it permitted him to do just that. Schmidt graduated with a law degree from Georgetown University.
of Kansas College Republicans, said the group invited Schmidt to speak partly because of his passion for Kansas' economy and people. She said the group was excited to have him visit.
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"He's one of my favorites." Moretti said. "He's one of the up-and-coming talents in the Republican Party."
talents in the relegation Schmidt said it was important that public officials performed quality service in a professional manner, regardless of politics. He said that Kansas had seen a high rate of turnover at the office of the attorney general, with five attorney generals in the past decade, and that one of his goals was to bring some stability to the office.
"When the elections are over, the insurance commissioner has to run the Insurance Department and the attorney general has to run the office of the attorney general," Schmidt said.
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But just because the Department of Student Housing doesn't receive state funding, Robertson said the department was not ambivalent about privatization.
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about privatization.
"We think of ourselves as educators first. We are completely not-for-profit, and if someone else starts running the dorms, then you lose a lot of that community feel." Robertson said.
The regents will conduct research during the next year, and they hope to discover cost-cutting solutions by 2012.
Privatization is just one of the latest ways the state is looking to cut expenses in higher education. State officials recently stopped state funds from being used to build new buildings on college campuses.
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