December 21, 2001

Republicans Renew Push to Reform Student-Aid Regulations

By STEPHEN BURD

After several months on the back burner, an effort by Republican Congressional leaders and the Bush administration to broadly review the regulations that govern federal student-aid programs is heating up.

In May, Rep. Howard P. (Buck) McKeon, the California Republican who heads a subcommittee of the House of Representatives Education and the Workforce panel that handles higher-education issues, invited college officials and lenders to identify the student-aid regulations that rankle

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