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Lamar Alexander's Public Statements on Issue: Higher Education

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10/26/2016 Alexander: $2.2 Million in Grant Funding is "Good News for Economic Growth in East Tennessee"
07/07/2016 Alexander: NIH Announcement Puts Vanderbilt "Front and Center in President's Precision Medicine Initiative"
06/09/2016 Alexander Votes for Bill to Restore Year-Round Pell Grants, Calling it "the Most Important News for College Students from Congress So Far This Year"
06/07/2016 Alexander, Johnson Lead 44 Senators in Introducing Congressional Review Act to Stop Backward "Time Card" Overtime Rule
06/07/2016 Alexander: Restoring Year-Round Pell Will Be Biggest News in Higher Education So Far This Year
05/18/2016 Alexander: Administration's Final Overtime Rule Could Increase Annual Tuition at Just One Tennessee Independent College Nearly $850 per Student
05/12/2016 Alexander: Interest Rate Cuts Will Save 400,000 Tennesseans $1.2 Billion on Student Loans
05/11/2016 Student Loan Rates Drop for Next School Year Thanks to Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act
05/11/2016 Student Loan Rates Drop for Next School Year Thanks to Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act
05/04/2016 Alexander: Revised Obama Labor Rule Could Increase Tuition at One Tennessee College Nearly $850 per Student
05/04/2016 Alexander: Revised Obama Labor Rule Could Increase Tuition at One Tennessee College Nearly $850 per Student
11/09/2015 Alexander Pledges to Simplify "Dreaded" FAFSA, "the No. 1 Obstacle" to Students Applying for Tennessee Promise
11/06/2015 Alexander Statement on the 50th Anniversary of the Higher Education Act
09/18/2015 Alexander: Tennessee High School Students Have "Best Opportunity in History" to Earn a College Degree
08/27/2015 Alexander to Tullahoma Education Leaders: Over 2,000 Area High School Graduates Lost Out on College Aid This Year Because of Overly Complicated Form
08/26/2015 Alexander: Biggest Barrier to Tennessee Promise is "Ridiculously Complex Federal Student Aid Form"
07/31/2015 Alexander Statement on Administration Plan to Give Pell Grants to Prisoners
07/08/2015 Alexander Amendment Would Provide 11 Million $2,100 "Scholarships for Kids"
06/17/2015 Alexander: Accreditation Must Improve, Because Neither Congress nor Department of Education Are Up to the Task of Monitoring Quality
06/03/2015 Alexander: Stop Telling Students They Can't Afford College
05/29/2015 Alexander to Jackson Education Leaders: Senate Education Bill Will Restore Responsibility for schools to Local Officials, Teachers and Parents
05/21/2015 Alexander, Murray Announce Higher Education Act Reauthorization Working Groups
05/20/2015 Alexander: If Colleges Share in the Risk of Student Loan Defaults, They Can Help Reduce Overborrowing--and the Cost of College
02/24/2015 Alexander: Bipartisan Report Finding Colleges in a Jungle of Red Tape Shows "Sloppy, Inefficient Government that Wastes Money, Hurts Students, Discourages Productivity and Impedes Research"
02/12/2015 Bipartisan Group of Senators Announces Report on Simplifying Federal Regulations for America's 6,000 Colleges and Universities
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