March 26, 2004

U.S. Senate Approves Budget Plan and Drops Disputed Proposal on Pell Grants

By STEPHEN BURD

Article: Bush Proposes Larger Pell Grants, but With a Catch

The U.S. Senate agreed this month to remove a controversial provision from a budget plan for 2005 that would have changed the way the maximum Pell Grant is set each year.

The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate appropriations subcommittee in charge of setting the Education Department's budget -- Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Tom Harkin of

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