Colorado Republicans kill in-state tuition proposal

[The Northerner]

DENVER -- After more than five hours of testimony, a House committee on Monday night killed a proposal to offer unsubsidized in-state tuition to undocumented students.

The 7-6 party-line vote marked the second time in a month that a controversial proposal, already passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate, died before a GOP-controlled committee in the House.

Another measure that would have recognized same-sex civil unions died on a similar party-line vote in the House Business Committee, also never reaching the House floor.

On Monday, the House Education Committee heard hours of testimony, the majority of it from a wide coalition of people supporting the bill: college presidents, district superintendents, business leaders, Denver's current mayor and one of his predecessors, and dozens of undocumented students themselves.

Read more: http://www.kwgn.com/news/kdvr-republicans-kill-instate-tuition-proposal-20110425,0,4108170.story

[Old and In the Way]

1. Sad to be so blinded by ideology that you can't do the right thing for the people of the State.