Senate Health Committee

Huge Student Loan Overhaul Set to Be Tacked Onto Health Care Reform

Members of the House are poised to vote this week to add a major overhaul of the student loan industry to the health care reform bill that the House will vote on this week. Before the House Budget Committee began its mark-up of the health care legislation, Chairman John Spratt (D-S.C.) explained that the 2010 Budget Resolution that passed the House last April instructed the House to pass a reconciliation bill with health care reform and education reforms in one package this year. "It will result,'' he said, "in landmark investments in higher education, making higher education more accessible ...

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