Fellow Conservative,

Americans are growing increasingly concerned about the cost of higher education and its diminishing value. Many students are taking on enormous debt and graduating with poor career prospects—our polling finds that 72% of Americans say a four-year degree is not worth the price of tuition.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) joined Tim Chapman at Heritage on Tuesday to discuss the future of Higher Ed in America. You can watch the full event online here.

As Florida’s governor, Scott pioneered many creative solutions to keep tuition low and ensure students have real skills when they graduate. He is incorporating many of these ideas in legislation that he plans to introduce in the Senate this fall.
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> > > The event was covered by The Daily Signal. Read more here.

Americans of all walks of life are concerned about higher ed, and Senator Scott addressed the dubious plans being proposed by liberals:
Let me be clear to all our Democrat friends: Eliminating all student-loan debt is not a serious proposal. It’s a slap in the face for those who have worked hard and paid off their student loans or are in the process of doing so. And it creates incentives for the bad behavior to continue.

It is important for conservatives to lead with innovative policy proposals on this and other defining issues.

Heritage Action is doing its part to fix higher ed and hold congress accountable on the issue. We are including co-sponsorship of the HERO Act on our scorecard, and investing time to educate lawmakers and their staffers on the policy.

Tim Chapman made the case for the HERO Act in the Washington Examiner. Not everyone needs a four-year liberal arts degree, and Congress should incentivize Americans to explore career options that don’t require a college education. Instead of throwing money at a student loan debt problem, the HERO Act empowers states to grant accreditation to innovative programs like blue-collar vocational schools, apprenticeships or short-term immersive coding programs.

> > > If you want to know what more you can do to help, then join our Sentinel Program and we can help get you the resources you need.
  • Sept. 30 Budget Deadline — Congress is currently engaged in the appropriations process but is unlikely to pass all 2020 appropriation bills before September 30. In order to avoid a government shutdown on Oct. 1, Congress will likely pass a continuing resolution.
  • Second Amendment — On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee voted to send three gun-control bills (H.R. 1186, H.R. 2078, H.R. 1236) to the House floor. Heritage Action is opposed to all three bills as they unnecessarily restrict Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
  • Born-Alive Hearing — Speaker Pelosi still won’t hold a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, so on Tuesday, House Republicans held their own hearing with expert and eye-witness testimony. > > > Listen to this podcast where one witness details the heart-wrenching scenes she witnessed where babies were left alone to die.
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A special thank you to all those who tweeted along with us in support of life and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act! Thank you for your activism!

Tim, Jessica and the Heritage Action Team
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