September 26, 2008

Higher-Education Funds in Limbo as Congress Prepares to Head Home

By Kelly Field

Washington

Members of Congress are poised to leave town today with some major higher-education accomplishments to campaign on and a slate of unfinished business important to colleges.

Topping the higher-education to-do list for the next Congressional session is federal spending for the 2009 fiscal year, which begins on October 1. While both chambers have made some headway on the education-and-research spending bill, neither the U.S. House of Representatives nor the Senate has passed the

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