February 22, 2008
Provision Deep in House Bill Would End Student-Aid Advisory Panel
Buried in a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act is a provision that would abolish an influential Congressional advisory committee.
The bill was passed this month by the House of Representatives. The provision, added by Rep. George Miller, a Democrat of California who is chairman of the House education committee, would eliminate the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance in 2011.
The advisory committee, created more than two decades ago, counsels Congress and
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