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House Rules Committee Advances 3 Bills to Floor Vote for Lame Duck Adoption

A bipartisan measure addressing the FAFSA fiasco is cleared for passage before year’s end, while Democrats say ‘wait until next year’ for the other two.
House Rules Committee Advances 3 Bills to Floor Vote for Lame Duck Adoption
A Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form from the U.S. Department of Education. Vitalii Vodolazskyi/Shutterstock
John Haughey
John Haughey
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The House Rules Committee has advanced three proposed bills to the floor, with one measure installing a “hard” Oct. 1 annual deadline for federal college assistance applications.

That bill has enough bipartisan momentum potentially to be adopted by the lame-duck Congress by year’s end. After a 40-minute hearing on Nov. 12 attended by nine of 13 members, the panel moved The FAFSA Deadline Act to a chamber vote with little objection. It could be heard on the floor this week.
John Haughey
John Haughey
Reporter
John Haughey is an award-winning Epoch Times reporter who covers U.S. elections, U.S. Congress, energy, defense, and infrastructure. Mr. Haughey has more than 45 years of media experience. You can reach John via email at [email protected]
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