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Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority. -- Ed Pastor
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students. -- Christopher Dodd
Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. -- Charles Vest
In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could. -- Eva Longoria
Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government. -- Denny Rehberg
Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
We simply can't keep providing money from the federal government in the form of subsidized or actual loans and Pell Grants when we don't have the money. -- John Kline
Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school. -- Hank Johnson
So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century. -- Denny Rehberg
Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. -- Charles Vest
The difficulty is, Pell Grants are an attempt to do the right thing, and that is to give the low-income student an opportunity to access higher education, and that's a good thing. And welfare was an attempt to help those most in need. The difficulty is, often times a program is so successful that it grows and grows and grows and grows. -- Denny Rehberg
The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite. -- John Conyers
The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy. -- Norm Coleman
Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions. -- Jim Cooper

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