Washington, Feb. 4 -- Congressman Joe Courtney issued the following press release:
Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), a senior Member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, slammed the Department of Education's new student loan caps, a result of the Big Ugly Bill (H.R. 1), which will cut in half the available graduate level student loans for nursing students and other critical professions. Courtney also called out banks for lobbying in support of the caps that will raise the cost of graduate education.
Last November, the Department of Education proposed a new rule which classifies graduate level nursing positions, such as nurse practitioners and nurse anesthesiologists, as non-professional.
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