michelle hackman of "wall street journal" and michael stratford of "politico." the bill that passed out of committee is the proper act, which means promoting real opportunity, success and prosperity education reform. michael stratford, you pointed out it did not pass with democrats support. what are their objections to the legislation as crafted? michael: democrats argued the bill would take away a lot of the safeguards and guardrails for federal money flowing into colleges and universities, particularly for-profit colleges. the bill would wipe out much of the obama era restrictions and regulations on for-profit schools and efforts to curb abuses in the industry. that is a major objective they have. they also argue the bill does not go far enough in addressing root causes of college affordability. and student aid is a good idea but in practice, that in some cases might harm students in the -- nba reduction in the amount of money they have available to go to college. susan: michelle, this legislation is 52 years old, written well before the digital age came to un