House Panel Subpoenas Education Department for FAFSA Rollout Records

Rep. Virginia Foxx, the chair of the House’s education committee, subpoenaed the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday for documents and communications related to the agency’s rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The subpoena requires the Education Department to hand over documents by Aug. 8. It comes nearly two months after Foxx and Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, the top Republican on the Senate’s education committee, accused the Education Department in a May 31 letter of “stonewalling” a government watchdog’s investigation into the rocky debut of the revamped form.