[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12723]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY

  (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speaker, right now students all over 
America are enjoying their much-earned summer vacation. We all know the 
enormous pressures today's youth face, and it hardly seems they get a 
chance to breathe anymore. Yet students all across the country are 
attending college in record numbers.
  That, unfortunately, is where the good news stops. As our college 
students settle into their internships over the summer, many are 
running into old classmates who recently graduated, and all of them are 
asking the same question: How do you live with such debt?
  We face a student debt crisis of truly mind-blowing proportions, but 
instead of working to give middle class families a fair chance at 
making college affordable, some of my colleagues are arguing over what 
to sue the President for.
  Later today, we are going to vote for a tax credit--it is unpaid 
for--and that will barely make a dent in what is quickly becoming the 
economic challenge of our era. I ask my colleagues, all of us who are 
talking often, constantly about the need to care for future 
generations, is this really the best we can do?

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