THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS will meet REMOTELY to conduct a hearing entitled, “The Student Debt Burden and Its Impact on Racial Justice, Borrowers, & The Economy.”  The witnesses on Panel I will be:  The Honorable Ayanna Pressley, Representative (MA-7), United States House of Representatives; and The Honorable Byron Donalds, Representative (FL-19), United States House of Representatives. The witnesses on Panel II will be: The Honorable Maura Healey, Attorney General, State of Massachusetts; Ms. Darimir Perez, Student Loan Borrower; Mr. James H. Steeley, President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency; Mr. John F. Remondi, President and CEO of Navient; Dr. Beth Akers, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Dr. Constantine Yannelis, Assistant Professor of Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Mr. Alexander Holt Policy Analyst, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget; Mr. Adam Looney, Executive Director, Marriner S. Eccles Institute, University of Utah; and Dr. Dominique Baker, Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Southern Methodist University.

Pursuant to guidance from the CDC and OAP, Senate office buildings are not open to the public other than official business visitors and credentialed press at this time. Accordingly, in-person visitors cannot be accommodated at this hearing. We encourage the public to utilize the Committee’s livestream of the hearing, available on the website at http://www.banking.senate.gov.

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