I wouldn't have been able to go to college without them, so I recognize how important these programs are.

The federal financial aid system is one of the great success stories in the history of the federal government.

I am a product of Pell Grants, could not have gone to college--graduated from Wabash College--without Pell Grants.

We now have to move from a system that provides access alone to one that incents success.

I think it highlights a very important issue with what I would say is the unintended consequences of the Affordable Care Act.

In Indiana, where I am from, we have had in recent days reported that 701 Hoosiers have signed up on the Affordable Health Care Act exchanges, and 108,000 are going to lose their health care plan.

if--unless you have a degree of completion in a degree that adds value in the marketplace, you are not going to do any better academically--I mean, you are not going to do any better economically than you would otherwise have done.

I think reforms that drive us towards completion are at least something we ought to give strong consideration.

And sadly for many students, if you--leave with tens of thousands of dollars in debt and have no degree then you are, by definition, much worse off because you don't have a better economic opportunity and you have a lot of debt.

I certainly understand the importance of the federal student loan program; I am very much a product of the federal student loan and student financial aid program.

I would vote yes. I certainly believe it is a vote of conscience.