Bobby Scott: “To the friends and families of these 29 miners, please know that we continue to remember your loss and are committed to…”

The sweeping changes to the federal student loan system originating from that law are compounding the issues that have risen from the dismantling of the Education Department.

Codifying this new system without assessing its effectiveness just doesn’t make any sense.

Instead, they’re forced to deal with uncertainty and chaos created by an administration that has systematically weakened the federal student aid system.

It’s difficult to articulate how impractical these proposals are, to say nothing of the pain and suffering they’ll inflict on students, educators and their communities, if they were to become law.