[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6317]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


             REMOVING THE ROADBLOCKS TO A COLLEGE EDUCATION

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, I have just this moment come from a meeting 
with many young Americans who are deeply troubled about why the 
Republican budget proposes the largest cut in Federal assistance to 
students who want to attend college of any time in our Nation's 
history, and they are asking why, and one of the individuals who is 
asking why down in my district is a woman named Tina Henderson, who I 
had the opportunity and privilege to meet a few weeks ago in Austin.
  Tina Henderson is the first person in her family to go to college. 
She did so after working as a member of the U.S. Air Force. She is a 
single mom. She has a great daughter, a 5-year-old, Erica, that she is 
mighty proud of, but she told me that without Federal student 
assistance she would not be able to go to college.
  Mr. Speaker, every family like hers across America is being told in 
this budget, ``Come up with an extra $5,000 if you want to support a 
young person through college in America in the future.'' With the 
tremendous cuts that are being made in this budget, roadblocks are 
being erected to Tina Henderson, to her daughter, Erica, and we need to 
get those roadblocks out of the way.

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