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Students Lobby on The Hill for Federal Financial Aid
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Students traveled to Washington D.C. to speak with members of Congress and their staff about federal financial aid.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/house-of-representatives/page/2/)
Students traveled to Washington D.C. to speak with members of Congress and their staff about federal financial aid.
The party maintained the Governorship and Assembly majority and flipped several State Senate seats to gain control of the only branch evading their grasp since 2011.
Students watched as election coverage reported that Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives, the Republicans maintained control of the Senate on Tuesday night at various watch party locations throughout campus.
Most Cornellians graduate in four years. Tom Reed (R-NY), who represents New York’s 23rd district (including Ithaca), has been in office for twice that. But you wouldn’t know from the jeering Ithacans filling his town halls. Suffice it to say readers of The Cornell Daily Sun are far from Reed’s core constituency. And yet Cornell, as with Ithaca at large, is a blue speck amid a red sea.