August 10, 2001

Colleges Spout Ideas for Simpler Aid Rules

By STEPHEN BURD

The head of the House of Representatives higher-education subcommittee said last month that he had received more than 3,000 responses to his invitation to college officials and lenders to suggest federal financial-aid rules that should be altered or eliminated.

In May, Rep. Howard P. (Buck) McKeon, a California Republican, asked financial-aid officials and lenders to submit to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce examples of nettlesome regulations. ''Somebody out there is

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