senate for the higher education act, it probably would not pass but you put it in with reconciliation and they ll ram it through. that s right. how is this bad for people out there right now who have kids who are approaching college aged? why is it bad? in my opinion, it s bad because now you got to struggle through the bureaucracy of the department of education. can you imagine the paperwork? can you imagine the form filling? ok, you do it on line. so what? you ve got to plow through endless form filling and a politicized organization to boot. i think it s bad. if people say i have no problem getting a pell grant and that s a federal program. the pell grant system is going to be expanded under this higher education act which will be part of the ram through of reconciliation. some more free money. oh, yes. according to the congressional budget office, this higher education act will add $200 billion to the deficit between 2011 and 2020. you go through a lot of manila every