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On the recordJanuary 15, 2014
Should we take this $1.1 billion and turn it into 180,000 or 200,000 Pell grants for students?
Said by
Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Proposing a shift in funding to increase Pell grants.

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