Inside Higher Ed:
Twelve of the 20 members of the U.S. Senate’s education committee have written a letter to Secretary Margaret Spellings questioning the Education Department’s plan to use an upcoming “negotiated rule making” process to consider implementing some of the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education. The bipartisan letter, signed by Sens. Michael B. Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), the committee’s chairman and senior Democrat, as well as 5 other lawmakers from each party, said the senators “have concerns” about including the commission’s recommendations in the regulatory process. “Although we have not yet received the final report, the draft recommendations approved by a majority of the Commission members are extremely broad and will likely require legislative action before they could be appropriately included in regulations,” the lawmakers wrote.
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