Dear Colleagues:
The summer months for Congress are similar to students cramming for finals. Congress is trying to get as much legislation written and passed as possible in a short period of time. Two important dates on the calendar to get bills passed are the July 4th recess and the August summer break.
With that in mind, we are also expecting to have a correlating ramp-up in activity. Just some of the key issues we know will be at the forefront are:
- The Pell Grant’s 50th Anniversary
- Advocacy work to fix the veteran programs’ 35% waiver and 85/15 problems
- Title IX
- Next steps on regulations emerging from negotiated rulemaking
We will keep you up-to-date on actions related to these and other issues affecting higher education with Action Alerts, updates here in future Washington Updates, and other communications.
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