Legislation· Nov 2023Sponsored by Bill Cassidy (R)
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to "Improving Income Driven Repayment for the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program and the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program".
Would have overturned the SAVE student loan repayment plan, a new income-driven repayment option.
Tradeoff
Would have canceled the SAVE repayment plan created by the Education Department's July 2023 rule. Would have kept the rule from taking any effect.
What's in it
The Senate defeated the resolution 49-50 on November 15, 2023, and the bill expired with the 118th Congress.
Senate
Introduced
(Sep 5, 2023)
Senate
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions(Sep 5, 2023)
Senate
Taken away from the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Discharged by petition(Nov 14, 2023)
A petition forced the committee to release the bill without acting on it.
Senate
On the Joint Resolution
Joint Resolution Defeated(Roll #310 · Nov 15, 2023)
49 yeanay 50
- John Thune (R-SD)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- Mike Braun (R-IN)
- Ted Budd (R-NC)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Ron Johnson (R-WI)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- Mitt Romney (R-UT)
- Tim Scott (R-SC)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- Marco Rubio (R-FL)
- Roger F. Wicker (R-MS)
- Susan M. Collins (R-ME)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Mike Lee (R-UT)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
- Todd Young (R-IN)
- Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- Joe, III Manchin (D-WV)
Passage votes· Nov 15, 2023· 118th Congress · 2023–2025