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Support of Mr. Kline's Amendment to H.R. 1

Floor Speech

Date: March 3, 2011
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Education

* Mr. CARSON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, on February 17, 2011, Mr. Kline offered an Amendment to H.R. 1 to prevent the use of funds toward implementing the Department of Education's harmful gainful employment rule. Although that amendment passed, I mistakenly voted against it. I apologize to Mr. Kline, my colleagues, and supporters of the amendment for my mistake.

* Whereas we cannot support programs that offer little to no substantive education and mislead students down a path to insurmountable debt, I do not support a rule that will eliminate many quality programs and block access to higher education for many non-traditional, low-income and minority students who want to better themselves by pursuing careers in valuable fields such as nursing, technology, criminal justice and design.

* I hope that future courses of action will allow for a more meaningful review of the issues concerning career colleges.


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