June 30, 2008

Higher-Education Bills Are Among Congress's Unfinished Business

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Washington

As Congress heads home for its Fourth of July recess this week, lawmakers are running out of time to wrap up their work on policy and spending bills important to colleges before the presidential campaign season kicks into high gear later this summer.

Congress's unfinished business includes legislation to renew the Higher Education Act, the major law that governs student aid. An update to the law is already five years overdue, but aides to the members who are hashing out key

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