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Senate Holds FAFSA Hearing. The Senate Health, Education Labor & Pensions Committee held a hearing entitled “Time to Finish Fixing the FAFSA.” The hearing could be the last education hearing under the chairmanship of Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who plans to retire following this congressional session. He held the hearing to push for changes to the FAFSA, an issue he has long trumpeted, and to push for the FAFSA Simplification Act. The committee’s ranking democratic member, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), said she supports the proposal, Inside Higher Ed reports. Partisan disagreements have held the committee back from making many changes around higher education, though last year the committee passed legislation into law to make some changes to the FAFSA. You can read a summary of the FAFSA Simplification Act here.
We publish the DC Shuttle each week Congress is in session featuring higher ed news from Washington collected by the New England Council, of which NEBHE is a member. This edition is drawn from the Higher Education Update in the Council’s Weekly Washington Report of Sept. 21, 2020. For more information, please visit: www.newenglandcouncil.com.
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