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Energy Education Loan Forgiveness Act

Floor Speech

Date: March 3, 2010
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Higher Education Education Energy

Energy Education Loan Forgiveness Act

(Mr. WILSON of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)

Mr. WILSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, this week I introduced the Energy Education Loan Forgiveness Act, a bill to provide student loan forgiveness to skilled workers in advanced energy industries.

The United States is already facing a critical shortage of trained workers for jobs that focus on energy efficiency, and studies show that demand for such workers will only grow. We need more workers, but we have to educate them properly, and the cost of such an education is an obstacle to many.

My legislation would help ease this burden by establishing a student loan forgiveness program for energy students who go to work in the advanced energy field. This program would start at $2,000 in forgiveness in the first year and go up to $5,000 with 5 years.

If we want our country to lead the way in advanced energy technologies, we have to be willing to invest in that workforce through education.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this important legislation.


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