In my state, the governor finally succeeded in weakening the public entity that regulates for-profit colleges. Elimination of the entity was part of two of the governor’s budget bills (they start with the governor, then go to the legislature). The legislature removed the relevant language from the first budget bill. It also removed the language from the next budget bill, but the governor used his veto power to accomplish a work-around that gutted the entity. The governor’s actions seemed almost vindictive; the state legislature is controlled by the same political party of which he is a member, but even most legislators thought he went too far by targeting the for-profit-college regulators.