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On the recordNovember 19, 2003
I would hope there would come a day we could guarantee that every American youngster would be able to qualify for a Pell Grant or some vehicle for them to go on to college. The gentleman has done a lot of work with me on GEAR UP and other projects, and we are doing a lot, but there is more to be done because millions of our young people in this country do not yet know with a certainty that they can go to college, and we have not, in this time of high tuition increases, kept pace. That is all we are asking tonight; that we do as much as we can do at this moment in time.
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Chaka Fattah
Pennsylvania
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Discussing the need for increased access to college funding for American youth.

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