"The maximum Pell Grant would increase by $200, to $5,550, in the 2010-11 academic year under a $163-billion spending bill approved today by the U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, and education," The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "Subcommittee members this afternoon thanked one another for their work on the bill and quickly pushed forward the legislation, which largely mirrors a House version passed last week. The Senate version would cost $2.5-billion more than the House version, but would spend slightly less on the National Institutes of Health."

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