Political Quotes

“None of us believe that our active duty soldiers should be in a position where they are going to have to make payments on their student loans while in fact they are not here. This discretion has been given to the Secretary under the Higher Education Act Amendments, the recent reauthorization. What we want to do here is to make it clear to the Secretary that not only does he have that authority and we expect that he will work with it, but also to give him a more permanent authority in the case of a national emergency that he can, in fact, defer these payments. I do think the passage of this will give him clear authority to make sure that they and their families do not have this in this time of war. Again, I wanted to congratulate both of my colleagues for their efforts on this bill and urge all of my colleagues in the House to support the HEROES Act of 2003.”