WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican senator from the Sooner State may have just kicked the proverbial federal hornet's nest after questioning the legality of new Department of Education Title IX regulations and receiving an answer he claims shows that the new standards equate to "executive overreach."
In early January, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford penned a letter to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights over the the Department's October 2010 and April 2011 'Dear Colleague' letters, memos that purport to interpret existing law related to sexual harassment and violence investigations, to various American universities and colleges that happen to receive some form of federal funding.
The number 2016 divided by 4 equals 504, exactly – with no remainder, which makes the year 2016, like the upcoming years 2020, 2024 and 2028 (and beyond), a leap year. We will get an "extra" day, February 29.
