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How Congress voted on various issues: CHEERS AND JEERS Cheers to: Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for offering an amendment that would ensure the new student loan structure does not leave students and families more vulnerable – even a couple years from now – than they are under current law. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for offering an amendment to the student loan bill that would sunset the student loan agreement within two years to keep interest rates low over the short-term and provide the time needed to enact a long-term solution. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) upon hearing that the GOP had reversed course and indefinitely postponed revealing and voting on its FY14 Labor/HHS/Education funding bill: “Shame on them. Shame on them for putting forward this façade of a budget. Shame on them for gutting funding for education, health and labor programs to such a low level that they cannot even defend their own proposals,” she said. Mike Simpson (R-ID), who serves on the Labor-HHS-Education panel: “For all of those people who want to continue to cut and cut and cut, now they are going to see the implications of some of those cuts.” Representatives Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), John Barrow (D-GA), and Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) for offering an amendment to the Department of Defense appropriations bill to prevent the use of funds to implement sequestration-related furloughs of DoD civilian employees, including educators in DoD-run schools. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) for crossing party lines and joining all the Democrats on the HELP Committee in voting to approve the two new NEA-supported nominees to the National Labor Relations Board. Jeers to: House GOP leadership for pulling back on revealing and marking up its FY14 Labor/HHS/Education funding bill. Based on the House GOP budget, the bill has to make extraordinary cuts that are far deeper than even sequestration, but leadership continues to avoid showing the specific cuts and taking votes on them.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:35:15 +0000

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