Speaker, I rise on behalf of millions of students
and graduates in this country that are struggling to finance their
higher education and pay off student loans. Yesterday I invited Izeah Garcia to the President's address. Izeah is
an advocate for increasing accessibility and lowering the cost of a
higher education. Izeah and I share a similar story: sons of
hardworking immigrant parents, and the first in our families to attend
a university, both at UC Santa Barbara, located in my district. Like many students today struggling to afford the rising cost of
tuition, we relied on student loans to put us through college. In the
President's speech last night, we didn't hear one mention of the over
$1.3 trillion student loan debt crisis.
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