Ms. BARRAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I think education is
the number one equalizer. It is the door to opportunity, yet the GOP
tax plan will make it harder to afford to be able to go to college. When I was a kid, my parents--both immigrants from Mexico, where mom
only had a third grade education--told me that I had to become a doctor
or a lawyer. That was the only way to get out of the poverty that we
lived in. As a result, I went to college. I was saddled in student loan debt
when I came out.
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