There are lots of ways for a bill to die in Congress. It can lack the right sponsors. It can perish in committee if it doesn't have the chairman's backing. It can fizzle under a Senate filibuster. Or, ...

When "Sesame Street" was created in 1969, it was a test - could television teach children? The program was developed with lower-income families in mind, and the set was meant to represent a block in ...