Alabama's governor on Friday signed legislation that he said will "simplify and clarify" the state's controversial anti-illegal immigration law, considered one of the country's toughest.
The new bill, HB 658, addresses some of its unintended consequences, including clarifying the types of documents that can serve as a form of official identification. But it does not address parts of the law that are at issue in federal courts.
Congress should prevent the loan rate hike and pay for it by targeting the very root of this increase - a provision in the 2010 federal health care law that raids student aid to the tune of $9 billion in order to "pay for" other parts of ObamaCare. Since this problem is of President Obama's own making, we should clean up this latest ObamaCare mess by ending this slush fund and applying the savings to prevent the upcoming rate increase.