| The Becerra Bulletin, June 2012 |
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| Thursday, 07 June 2012 19:43 |
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BY THE NUMBERS KEEPING COLLEGE AFFORDABLE & THE AMERICAN DREAM ALIVE
Unless Congress acts before July 1, interest rates on need-based student loans will double. Rep. Becerra has been fighting to keep student loan interest rates low. Here’s a snapshot on student loans:
REP. BECERRA VOTES AGAINST BUDGET PLAN THAT PICKS MILLIONAIRES OVER MIDDLE CLASS
In April, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives voted to pass legislation (H.R. 5652) that protects tax breaks for millionaires by cutting Medicare for seniors, health care for kids, food and nutrition assistance for struggling families, and vital federal services for working Americans. Rep. Becerra voted against the legislation and released the following statement: “As a country, our best days have come when we have pulled together to forge through whatever the crisis. On those ‘all-hands-on-deck’ moments, Americans of all stripes have always stepped up when called to duty. As a country, we continue to recover from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, which was in large part caused by years of selfish deregulation and lax oversight of unscrupulous Wall Street banks—not by senior citizens who rely on the Meals on Wheels service or working families who can barely afford to put food on their table. Yet today, it's the most vulnerable who Republicans have targeted to pay the price for the failed policies of the past…”
REP. BECERRA SUPPORTS PROTECTIONS FOR IMMIGRANT, LESBIAN, GAY BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER (LGBT), AND NATIVE AMERICAN VICTIMS OF DOMESTICE VIOLENCE
On May 16, the House of Representatives voted to pass legislation (H.R. 4970) that fails to include certain protections for immigrant, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and Native American victims of domestic violence. Before voting against the legislation, Rep. Becerra delivered the following remarks on the floor of the House:  COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY ROUNDTABLE WITH REP. BECERRA AND DEMOCRATIC LEADER NANCY PELOSI
On May 26 at Occidental College, Rep. Becerra and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi were joined by the presidents, administrators and students from several southern California colleges and universities for a roundtable discussion on college affordability and student loan interest rates. Interest rates for subsidized Stafford loans are set to double from 3.4% to 6.8% for over 570,000 Californians and 7 million Americans unless Congress acts by July 1, 2012.
 Click here to view more photos from the event. REP. BECERRA RECOGNIZES OUTSTANDING ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS REP. BECERRA HONORS VETERANS
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