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Higher Education Priorities for the Fifth Supplemental Spending Biil
| 5/29/2020 | Request from ACE and 83 other higher education associations requesting $46.6 billion in support for students and institutions in the fifth COVID-19 spending bill. |
Topic(s): Federal Budget and Appropriations; Crisis Management; Financial Aid
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Expanding the Paycheck Protection Program to All Nonprofits
| 5/29/2020 | Letter to the Senate Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship urging support for the House HEROES Act provision that expands the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program to all nonprofits, regardless of size. |
Topic(s): Taxation and Finance; Crisis Management; Budget
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Expanding the Main Street Lending Program to Nonprofits
| 5/29/2020 | Letter to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in support of the House HEROES Act provision requiring the Federal Reserve to expand the Main Street Lending Program to all nonprofits, including colleges and universities. |
Topic(s): Taxation and Finance; Crisis Management; Budget
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Supporting Research During the Pandemic
| 5/28/2020 | Letter to Senate leadership and the Appropriations Committee on requesting $26 billion in additional support for research during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Topic(s): Crisis Management; Research; Research Funding
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Direct Lending for Nonprofits During the COVID-19 Pandemic
| 5/22/2020 | Letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about setting up facilities that can provide direct lending to colleges, universities, and nonprofit medical institutions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Topic(s): Budget; Crisis Management; Taxation and Finance
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Summary of the HEROES Act
| 5/14/2020 | Summary of the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act, the House bill that would be the fifth COVID-19 emergency funding measure. |
Topic(s): Crisis Management; Legislation; Federal Budget and Appropriations; Financial Aid; Taxation and Finance; Student Loans
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Type: Bill Summary
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Letter to the House on the HEROES Act
| 5/14/2020 | Letter to House leadership in support of the Health, Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act. |
Topic(s): Crisis Management; Legislation; Financial Aid; Taxation and Finance; Federal Budget and Appropriations
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Letter on the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program
| 4/23/2020 | Letter to the House and Senate Small Business Committees requesting changes to the Paycheck Protection Program and COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan Emergency Program to help higher education institutions more easily apply for support. |
Topic(s): Budget; Crisis Management; Taxation and Finance
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Letter on the Main Street Lending Program
| 4/23/2020 | Letter to the leaders of the House Committee on Financial Services and Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs requesting changes to the CARES Act Main Street Lending program to help accommodate higher education institutions. |
Topic(s): Budget; Crisis Management; Taxation and Finance
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Letter to Congress on the Taxability of Emergency Student Financial Aid Grants
| 4/21/2020 | Letter to House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees requesting that the emergency student financial aid grants authorized by the CARES Act are not subject to taxation. |
Topic(s): Crisis Management; Federal Budget and Appropriations; Financial Aid; Taxation and Finance
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Type: Letters and Comments
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