Title: Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of Education to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of Representatives relating to the legal authority to forgive Federal student loan debt.
Policy area: Education

Summary:
This resolution requests that the President (and directs the Department of Education) to transmit, within 14 days, certain information and documents concerning forgiveness of federal student loan debt.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1296 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1296

  Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of 
Education to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of 
  Representatives relating to the legal authority to forgive Federal 
                           student loan debt.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2022

Ms. Foxx submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of 
Education to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of 
  Representatives relating to the legal authority to forgive Federal 
                           student loan debt.

    Resolved, That the President is requested, and the Secretary of 
Education is directed, to transmit, respectively, to the House of 
Representatives, not later than 14 days after the date of the adoption 
of this resolution, unredacted copies of all documents, memoranda, 
legal opinions, notes from meetings, records (including telephone and 
electronic mail records), correspondence (electronic or otherwise), and 
other communications, or any portion of any such communications, to the 
extent that any such one or more items are within the possession of the 
President or the Secretary, respectively, and refer to the following:
            (1) Any request by the President, Executive Office of the 
        President, or the staff of the Department of Education 
        (including any political appointees and career employees) to 
        draft a memo regarding the authority to forgive any Federal 
        student loan debt.
            (2) Meetings held between the Executive Office of the 
        President and the Department of Education relating to the 
        forgiveness of Federal student loan debt.
            (3) Meetings and conversations, both formal and informal, 
        held between White House officials and any group or 
        organization advocating for Federal student loan debt 
        forgiveness and Department of Education staff, including 
        political appointees and any group with interests relating to 
        student loan forgiveness.
            (4) Meetings held between the Executive Office of the 
        President, the Department of Education, the Department of the 
        Treasury, the Department of Justice, or the Bureau of Consumer 
        Financial Protection relating to the forgiveness of Federal 
        student loan debt.
            (5) Discussions between Department of Education employees 
        and officials, including political appointees and career staff, 
        relating to the drafting of any memoranda related to the 
        forgiveness of Federal student loan debt.
            (6) Any legal opinions sought by the Department of 
        Education related to the forgiveness of Federal student debt.
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