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A Washington Post piece bathed her in golden light: She hopes to go to graduate school in sociology, she's scrimping because she doesn't want to burden her parents financially, she is so much a hostage to the media that she couldn't attend her own mom's wedding, and--the icing on the cake--she has taken up knitting.
They can either rely on outmoded studies to argue with conservative politicians, who, for the moment, have the more authoritative pretext for scrimping on day-care cost and quality.
Congress is terrified of scrimping on it.