Obama Signs Student Loan Overhaul Legislation at Tadias Magazine

Above: President Obama, pictured here signing historic care
legislation on March 23, today signed the final piece of the
health care puzzle, which includes sweeping changes to the
student aid system. (Photo: NYT)

ABC NEWS
By SUNLEN MILLER and HUMA KHAN
March 30, 2010
President Obama today signed the final piece of the health care puzzle, which entails sweeping changes to the student aid system and makes the federal government the primary distributor of student loans. To highlight the education reforms in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Obama signed it at the Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Va., and focused on the largely overshadowed student loan reforms. “We’re finally making our student loan system work for students and families,” Obama said. “With this bill… we’re finally taking meaningful reform in our higher education system.” Read more.

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By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: March 23, 2010
WASHINGTON — With the stroke of President Obama’s pen, his health care overhaul — the most sweeping social legislation enacted in decades — became law on Tuesday. Mr. Obama affixed his curlicue signature, almost letter by letter, to the measure, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, surrounded by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and a raft of other lawmakers who spent the past year on a legislative roller-coaster ride trying to pass it. Aides said he would pass out the 20 pens he used as mementos. Read more.

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