This afternoon at 3:00pm Eastern, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on Economic Policy, holds a hearing on “Protecting Student Loan Borrowers and the Economy in Upcoming Transitions”. Witnesses include Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, the Honorable Letitia James, Attorney General of the state of New York, and Persis Yu, Director of the Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project at the National Consumer Law Center. On Thursday at 10:15am Eastern, the House Education and Labor, Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee, will hold a hearing on “Keeping the Pell Grant Promise: Increasing Enrollment, Supporting Success”. On Tuesday, August 3 at 10am Eastern, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary holds a hearing on “Student Loan Bankruptcy Reform”.
Tuesday’s hearing may be accessed here. Thursday’s hearing may be accessed here. Next Tuesday’s hearing may be accessed here.