Today the House of Representatives education committee takes up President Obama's plan to end bank-based lending and make Pell Grants an entitlement -- but offers a few key concessions to nonprofit lenders, appropriators, and minority-serving institutions. Kelly Field and Sara Hebel take a look at those changes and assess the bills chances in the House and Senate. (2:26)

Kelly Field, The Chronicle's chief Washington reporter, and Sara Hebel, our politics editor, spend a minute (or so) each week discussing the key higher-education debates and behind-the-scenes maneuvering taking place in the nation's capital. Look for new episodes every Tuesday.