Launching Foro Campus

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Mr. HERNANDEZ. Mr. Speaker, last Thursday, I visited the Ponce Health Sciences University and the Pontifical Catholic University in Ponce, Puerto Rico. We launched Foro Campus, an initiative to visit universities and to listen about the impact that the big, ugly bill is having on students' futures.

What I found was not celebration. Instead, it was anxiety. I listened to students who face uncertainty over their ability to go to graduate school due to changes in Federal funding for student loan programs. I listened to students who are anxious due to changes to the repayment programs of Federal student loan programs.

Mr. Speaker, I will continue visiting these universities. I will continue collecting these stories and anecdotes so that Congress takes note and eventually takes action. We need more and better education and not less.

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