College Student Relief Act of 2007

COLLEGE STUDENT RELIEF ACT OF 2007

Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Madam Speaker, as one who graduated from college with two of my elementary school teachers, because they did not have to have a college degree at that time and could not get one, I want to thank and commend Chairman MILLER for bringing this legislation to the floor.

As a member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, I am proud to cosponsor this historic legislation that will make college more affordable to students in Illinois and across the Nation.

A few minutes ago, I heard one of my colleagues from the other side of the aisle suggest that this was a sound bite of some kind, and I was thinking to myself, yeah, for those students in my district who live in and go to college at Columbia College, it is a savings bite of $2,430 over the years that they will be in school; at Chicago State University, $2,270; Concordia University, $2,430; DePaul University, $2,410; Dominican, $2,580; and on down the line.

Well, if it is a sound bite, I think the sound of this kind of saving sounds pretty good to the students who live in the city of Chicago, the State of Illinois and across the Nation. I urge its passage.

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