May 21, 2004

House Members Argue Over 'Budget Neutral' Higher-Education Bill

By STEPHEN BURD

Republicans and Democrats on a key education committee in the U.S. House of Representatives clashed last week over whether legislation that GOP lawmakers have introduced to renew the Higher Education Act would do enough to help low-income students gain access to college.

At issue was the decision by the Republican leadership of the panel to keep the bill (HR 4283), known as the College Access and Opportunity Act, "cost neutral," meaning that any money added to one federal student-aid

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