[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6318]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


          STUDENTS PROTESTING PRO- POSED CUTS IN STUDENT LOANS

  (Ms. LOFGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. LOFGREN. Mr. Speaker, today in the Capitol hundreds of students 
will be visiting with each of us protesting the proposed cuts in 
student loans. Why? Because these cuts are like opening up with an 
assault weapon on the American people.
  As my colleagues know, 8,000 students at San Jose State University in 
my district received help in education last year, and many of those 
students would not be able to go to college without the loans and 
grants and work student programs that have been provided.
  I was terribly shocked to read in the paper the other day the 
supposition that somehow this is class warfare, that the high school 
graduates of the country should not be asked to use their tax money for 
students to get ahead and become college graduates and even more.

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  I think the person who said that does not understand blue collar 
America. I grew up the daughter of a truck driver and secretary, and I 
will tell you the thing that mattered most to my parents and every 
adult on the block, none of whom had college degrees, was that all the 
kids get ahead and be successful. Do not cut down on the American 
dream. Allow students who work hard to get good grades to get ahead.


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