Rubén Hinojosa: “the Ryan budget proposal would devastate funding for students by freezing the maximum Pell Grant for 10 years”

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted: Rollcall No. 240, ``no.'' ____________________

I was unable to be present in the House Chamber for certain rollcall votes on February 26th and the week of February 29 through March 3, 2016. Had I been present on those dates, I would have voted ``yea'' for rollcalls 100, 102, 103, 104…

In the last 4 years we have shown great improvement in graduation rates, in enrollment in higher education, and graduation, even, at the colleges.

I am encouraged that we are doing some things right and helping a lot of people who under the conditions that our ranking member, Bobby Scott, gave that could not afford it or had preexisting medical conditions, are now covered.