Rubén Hinojosa: “The passage of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act made the largest investment in student financial aid since…”

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.

We sell our families short when we accept that high-interest loans are the best we can do for our communities.

You made the statement that the HBCUs are a very important component of higher education, and I have been one of the strongest supporters of HBCUs.

But it was interesting to me that the same arguments that I hear my friends on the other side of the aisle that businesses will close and things will go to hell just didn't pan out.