Black College Leaders Briefed on Historic Health Care, Education Legislation: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and other congressional leaders addressed college presidents, administrators and students representing the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities and other predominantly Black schools just hours before Democratic leaders released a bill Thursday that combined highly sought education funding and student loan reform with historic legislation that aims to revamp health care.
“You come here at a really crucial time in history,” Pelosi told delegates attending the 36th annual meeting of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), as she described components of the “Healthcare and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010,” a bill that packages initiatives in the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA) with health care reform initiatives that have been the focus of intense debate on and off the Hill over the past year.
