I remind my colleague that his vote against the bill is a vote to deny about 34 percent of the workers in his district in Pennsylvania an average raise of $3,200, and that, in fact, wages for low-income workers have been going up, but only because States and localities have been increasing the minimum wage, just like this bill does. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin), the vice chair of the Education and Labor Committee.
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The repeal represents the federal government walking away from that responsibility, which jeopardizes the hard-fought progress we have made.
Treasury has no expertise serving students or institutions of higher education or monitoring servicers for accuracy.
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.
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