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At the end of the 94th Congress, opponents of statist economic inter- vention had reason to congratulate each other: the proposed Agency for Consumer Advocacy had failed to get off the ground. Ironically, the House Judiciary Committee is now considering a bill which would create similar opportunities for Federal harrassment of private en- terprise but which goes under a completely different name. The bill is ELR. 5528, the "Legal Services Corporation Amendments Act of 1977." The Legal Services Corporation h as already shown great ingenuity in using its legislative mandate as a base f...

Title IX drew plenty of high fives last week as the 1972 federal law, banning sexual discrimination in academics and athletics, marked its 50th birthday. Yet, the overarching theme from women who’ve lived on the playing fields the past 50 years is there’s a glaring need for progress.

HERMISTON — When Kay Edwards was in high school in Kellogg, Idaho, Title IX was just in its infancy.

A portrait of Patsy Mink, the first woman of color in the House and the first Asian American women elected to Congress, will hang in the U.S. Capitol.