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"From our perspective, we view textbook publishers as highly exploitative," Justin Goss, a student senator at UC Davis, told members of the Senate Education Committee. "While I am sure that they are perfectly nice people, it continues to baffle me why a reordered table of contents and a shiny new binding warrants and additional $50, $60, or sometimes $100 on the price tag."

"WGU President Robert W. Mendenhall testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on February 2, 2012, at a hearing on improving college affordability in the United States. Dr. Mendenhall was one of four higher education leaders who, along with U.S. Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter, spoke of the need to combat the rising cost of a college education."

"Full Committee Hearing - The Promise of Accessible Technology: Challenges and Opportunities"

"Today (February 9, 2012), Senators Cornyn (R-TX), Wyden (D-OR), and Hutchison (R-TX) and Representatives Doyle (D-PA), Yoder (R-KS), and Clay (D-MO) introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act, a bill that would ensure free, timely, online access to the published results of research funded by eleven U.S. federal agencies. The Research Works Act, a piece of legislation introduced in December that would ban the government from providing the public access to publicly funded research"