PELL GRANT HURRICANE AND DISASTER RELIEF ACT -- (House of Representatives - September 07, 2005)
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Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member from California for yielding me this time.
I rise in support of this legislation, and I want to commend the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Keller) for his introduction of it.
I think all of us recognize the importance of formal education, higher education, training; and that if individuals for whatever the reason are not able to avail themselves of these opportunities, then obviously life for them will be far more difficult.
I think it is also important, though, that we go beyond just the individuals who are recipients of the Pell grant, and I support strongly the legislation that I understand is being introduced later on today by the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller) and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Kildee) that would allow us to provide for the recalculation to take another look at how we assess family income to try to make sure that we maximize the potential of each and every individual in our country to have the greatest possibility of receiving formal education that goes beyond the primary and secondary levels.
So there are many ways to respond to the impact of Katrina, and I think many people are doing so in many places throughout the country, everybody using what it is that they have got to give.
Again, I commend the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Keller) for his insight, for his intuition, for his introduction of this bill, and would urge that we support it and also urge support for the Miller-Kildee legislation that I understand is being introduced later on today.
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