"A little relief may be on the way for students and parents stressed out about college financial aid," U.S. News & World Report reports. "In a rare example of bipartisanship, Democrats and Republicans are pushing for a simplification of the long, complicated, and confusing federal financial aid application that 10 million students and families fill out every year. House Democrats and Republicans last month overwhelmingly voted for a bill that would allow parents to check a box on their tax return to have their information sent to the Department of Education and thus automatically answer some questions on a Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Families would still have to fill out more than 90 other blanks in an electronic version of the FAFSA, but more than 60 of those remaining questions would be fairly easy ones such as the names, ages, and addresses of family members."