[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1629]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TENNESSEE EDUCATION LOTTERY

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, before I was elected to Congress I served 24 
years in the Tennessee State Senate. For 20 of those years I worked 
hard to create a Tennessee education lottery, an opportunity for 
students to go to college and come out without a debt and without 
having to have a job when they were in college to succeed.
  Next Monday will be the 10th anniversary of the Tennessee Education 
Lottery. It has raised over $2.8 billion for education, yet, with 
education costs rising, it is still not enough.
  We, in Congress, need to work hard to make sure that Pell Grants 
increase and that Pell Grants go to students at not-for-profit schools 
and those for-profit schools that graduate students and get them 
gainful employment.
  Ladders of opportunity for the middle class are paved through 
education. The Tennessee Education Lottery is one of those ways.
  I continue my work in Congress working for Pell Grants and other 
opportunities to see that monies are efficiently channeled to students 
to give them an opportunity to improve their lives.

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