Federal Relations Archive

Position Letters and Congressional Testimony

• Testimony By David Ward, President, American Council on Education
  Before the Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information of Judiciary Committee, United States Senate (October 12, 2001)
• AASCU Letter on National Security & Higher Education (October 2, 2001)
• Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Regarding Feinstein Proposal on Student Visas (October 2, 2001)
• Letter to College and University Presidents Regarding the Callup of Reservists (October 1, 2001)
• Letter to College and University Presidents Regarding the Campus Crime Federal Reporting Deadline - October 8 (October 1, 2001)
• Letter to S.1/H.R.1 Conferees re: Title II (July 17, 2001)
• Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee in Support of Adequate Funding for Health and Education (May 16, 2001)
• Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee in Support of Adequate Funding for NSF (May 16, 2001)
• ACE Letter to Sens. Kennedy & Jeffords Opposing Various Amendments to S.1 (May 3, 2001)
• ACE Testimony on Amateur Sports Integrity Act Before Senate Commerce Committee (April 26, 2001)
• Letter to Rep. English in Support of Student Loan Interest Deduction Act Expansion (February 27, 2001)
• Testimony before the District of Columbia Council regarding the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program (February 26, 2001)
• ACE Letter to College Presidents about International Safety (February 12, 2001)
• Letter to Urge Congress to Enact FY01 Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill Bipartisan Agreement (December 5, 2000)

Issue Advocacy

SEVP/CIPRIS: Coordinated Interagency Partnership Regulating International Students

• AACRAO ad placed in Roll Call (May 24, 2001)
• Letter to INS Regarding Implementation of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program/Coordinated Interagency Partnership Regulating International Students (SEVP/CIPRIS) (April 6, 2001)
• Pilot Program Participants Oppose CIPRIS Repeal (October 2, 2000)
• CIPRIS (Coordinated Interagency Partnership Regulating International Students) Proposed Rule (December 21, 1999)
• AACRAO's Initial Response to CIPRIS Fee Regulation (December 21, 1999)
• AACRAO Comments to INS on CIPRIS Proposed Rule (February 22, 2000)

Electronic Signatures

• AACRAO Comments on Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, "Performance Standards for Retention of Electronic Records in the Student Financial Assistance Programs (March 19, 2001)
• E-Sign Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (March 2, 2001)

Taxpayer Relief Act

• Hope and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits Documents

  • TRA97 Statutory Language, as amended,
    • Section 25A, Hope and Lifetime Learning Credits
    • Section 6050S, Returns Relating to Higher Education Tuition and Related Expenses
    • Conference Report excerpt, IRS Restructuring and Reform Ac
  
  
  
• AACRAO Endorses University of California System Letter to IRS on Hope/Lifetime Learning Information Reporting NPRM (September 14, 2000) (.pdf)
• AACRAO Memo: TRA Reporting
• ACE Circulates AACRAO Memo To Presidents

Partnership for Veterans' Education

• Partnership Letter to 107th Congress Members (January 2001)
• Press Release (March 1, 2000)
• Sample Letter to Members of Congress in Support of S.2419, H.R.4334 (April 2000)

Military Reserves

• Letter to College and University Presidents Regarding the Callup of Reservists (October 1, 2001)