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Rep. Foxx Calls for Streamlining Regulations and Cutting Spending

Chronicle of Higher Education

January 25, 2011

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said on Tuesday that one of her priorities for higher education in the new session of Congress would be to question the amount and scope of regulation that the U.S. Education Department applies to colleges, in particular the proposed "gainful employment" rule that could have a major impact on the nation's for-profit institutions. She also repeated earlier comments that the Pell Grant program, which provides college scholarships for low-income students, would not be exempt from Republican proposals to slash the federal budget.

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