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Key Votes
HR 438 - Student Loan Forgiveness for Teachers - Key Vote
National Key Votes
Joe Pitts voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Read statements Joe Pitts made in this general time period.
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Stage Details
Legislation - Bill Sent To Committee (Senate) - July 10, 2003
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (417-7) - July 9, 2003(Key vote)
Title: Student Loan Forgiveness for Teachers
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote to pass a bill that would raise the loan forgiveness amounts from $5,000 to $17,500 for elementary and secondary math, science, reading, and special education teachers in low-income schools.
- Teachers of other subjects would still receive the $5,000 loan forgiveness, assuming they continued to meet all the standards.
- Teachers must be highly qualified and agree to teach for five consecutive years at a school with more than 40 percent of the students coming from families below the poverty line.
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Jan. 29, 2003
Title: Student Loan Forgiveness for Teachers
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
- Richard Hugh Baker (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- John A. Boehner (OH - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jeb E. Bradley (NH - R) (Out Of Office)
- Virginia 'Ginny' Brown-Waite (FL - R) (Out Of Office)
- Tom Cole (OK - R)
- Vernon J. 'Vern' Ehlers (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Chaka Fattah Sr. (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Scott Garrett (NJ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Samuel B. 'Sam' Graves (MO - R)
- James C. 'Jim' Greenwood (PA - ) (Out Of Office)
- David Lee 'Dave' Hobson (OH - R) (Out Of Office)
- John H. 'Johnny' Isakson (GA - ) (Out Of Office)
- William Lewis 'Bill' Jenkins (TN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX - D)
- Richard Keller (FL - R) (Out Of Office)
- James T. 'Jim' Kolbe (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Howard P. 'Buck' McKeon (CA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Devin G. Nunes (CA - R)
- Todd Russell Platts (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jon Christopher Porter Sr. (NV - R) (Out Of Office)
- John M. Shimkus (IL - R)
- Robert Ruhl 'Rob' Simmons (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Mark Edward Souder (IN - R) (Out Of Office)
- William M. 'Bill' Thomas (CA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Patrick J. 'Pat' Tiberi (OH - R) (Out Of Office)
- Heather A. Wilson (NM - R) (Out Of Office)
