Clinton: Higher Education Reconciliation Bill & H.R. 2572, The Nurse Loan Forgiveness Act of 2007

[ElsewheresDaughter]

the Nation faces a 1 million nursing shortage that is critical condition for our hospitals and for all of us especially most of your parents who will be needing that care in the coming years.

H.R. 2572, The Nurse Loan Forgiveness Act of 2007

H.R. 2572 would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a student loan forgiveness program for nurses.

http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_2572.h...

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered remarks on higher education on the floor of the Senate today as the debate begins about the Higher Education Reconciliation Bill

She got them both done!
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/23/01/15.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNTdwCjL4zo

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This bill really represents a tremendous victory for students, for their families, for higher education, for the future of the American economy, for millions of families who still struggle to pay for college and for millions of young people who will not only carry forth from their education a degree, but on average, more student debt than any graduates who came before them.

Most of all, this bill is a victory for that young boy or girl who is thriving in school, who might one day wish to attend college and fulfill his or her God-given potential, but worries that such a wish is beyond his or her reach, that it's just too expensive to realize.

I want to commend the members of the committee on both sides of the aisle for the great work that has been done bringing this bill to the floor. I was thrilled with many of the provisions, some of which I've worked on ever since I came to the Senate, particularly focusing on nontraditional students who more and more are becoming the norm; older students, married students, single-parent students, who often have found that there were barriers to their accessing whatever help was available from the federal government programs to continue their education.

I'm also personally just thrilled at what we've done for homeless and foster youth. This has been a passion of mine going back to my years as a law student when I first started representing abused and neglected children-- children who ended up in the foster care system, all the way through my time in the White House, where we were instrumental in working with the Congress in passing landmark legislation to make adoption easier, to try to make the foster care system more responsive to the needs of the child and to accelerate decisions being made as to whether or not a child would ever realistically be able to return to his or her biological family-- to my years in the Senate, where we have continued to try to help students who are in the foster care system as they age out.


http://www.senate.gov/~clinton/news/statements/record.c...

CHIP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsnSgmZvsN0

September 27, 2007 - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today spoke on the floor of the Senate, urging the President to sign into law the Children's Health Insurance bill the Senate is expected to approve today. The bill also includes the Support for Injured Servicemembers Act of 2007, legislation Senator Clinton introduced along with Senator Dodd to provide up to six months of job-protected leave for spouses, children, parents or next of kin of service members who suffer from a combat-related injury or illness, enacting a key recommendation of the Dole-Shalala Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors. In her remarks, Senator Clinton also praised passage today by the Senate of the Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

THAT'S MY GAL!!!


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[LostinVA]

1. Just one reason why my Pediatric nurse mom loves HRC

Her support of nurses and first responders, her work for women and children, and her excellent record on environmental and animal rights issues. She doesn't like some of her stances, including IWR, but as she says, if she let that be her tipping point, she wouldn't eb able to vote for hardly anyone.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. my daughters are nurses & a nursing student My hubby &son Hoboken fire fighters all voted Hillary

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[LostinVA]

3. Notice how few responses this thread has?

Now, if she was voting AGAINST the bill, we would have 200.

[bigtree]

4. thanks for this info

it's rare to see someone actually presenting the proposals an positions of their candidate. Refreshing.

[KoKo]

5. k7r.

[sueh]

6. Am I missing something?

The link provided indeed describes HR 2572, The Nurse Loan Forgiveness Act of 2007, but shows it was introduced by Representative Loretta Sanchez (CA-47), with 13 co-sponsors, all of whom are members of the House. Is there a Senate version of this bill?

http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_2572.h

Thanks.