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Xavier Becerra: We are talking about higher education here. Graduate education, which is postsecondary education at the highest level…

On the recordJuly 10, 1997
We are talking about higher education here. Graduate education, which is postsecondary education at the highest level, where we have our chemists, our scientists, our teachers coming out of our schools, that is extremely important as well. I am concerned that there are some provisions in this bill that would detrimentally affect graduate students, those who have already got the undergraduate degree and now are trying to get that graduate degree to be the scientists and chemists and inventors of the future. Can the gentleman explain it? There is a particular provision that is harmful to those graduate students. Can the gentleman explain that to us?
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Xavier Becerra
Democratic · California

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Addressing concerns about provisions in a bill affecting graduate education.

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