The incoming House leadership has pledged to make higher education more affordable by cutting the interest rate on student loans in HALF! However, for this to happen…
Your representatives need to know this is important to you!
AMSA, working with several other national student groups including Rock the Vote and others, will be holding a press conference and meeting with representatives and senators to support this commitment.
What you can do NEXT THURSDAY (January 11) is call, fax, e-mail, and write to your representative(s). To determine who that is, simply visit http://www.house.gov/writerep/, choose your state from the drop down box and type in your zip code + 4 (you can learn your +4 by visiting http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp). If you wish to email your representative, you can do so from this very page. Just enter your contact information and what you wish to say.
Please tell your representative(s) that you support the House leadership’s pledge to make higher education more affordable by cutting interest rates on student loans in half.
Information to aid you in contacting your representative in various ways, as well as a sample letter that you can edit and send as your own, is attached as a Word document. Feel free to download and save it to your computer for your own use. Just click the following link:
Reducing Student Loan Interest Letter & Guide to Contacting Your Representative
For more information about this subject, please visit http://www.amsa.org/meded/studentdebt.cfm
 Thank you for taking action on this important matter!
