H.R. 6677 · 119th Congress

Professional Degree Access Restoration Act

Introduced on Dec 11, 2025 by Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15). 51 cosponsors, all from the sponsor's party. Latest action (Dec 11, 2025): Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Dec 11, 2025
Cosponsors
51
0 from the other party
Policy area
Education
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Progress

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  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reverse the reductions in Federal loan availability for graduate and professional students enacted under Public Law 119-21.

Summary

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Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Ritchie TorresD-NY-15Sponsor

Democrats · 51

Roll calls

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No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

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  1. Dec 11, 2025Introduced in House
  2. Dec 11, 2025Introduced in House
  3. Dec 11, 2025 · HouseReferred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Committees

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Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS INC.4 reports
    $50K reported (all issues)
  2. National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners3 reports
    $72K reported (all issues)
  3. National League for Nursing3 reports
    $86.4K reported (all issues)
  4. The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. (AOTA)3 reports
    $567K reported (all issues)
  5. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF NURSING2 reports
    $160K reported (all issues)
  6. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES2 reports
    $1.2M reported (all issues)
  7. AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION2 reports
    $625.3K reported (all issues)
  8. AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION2 reports
    $640K reported (all issues)
  9. American Federation of Teachers2 reports
    $900K reported (all issues)
  10. American Society of Landscape Architects2 reports
    $154.3K reported (all issues)
  11. HARVARD UNIVERSITY--PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE2 reports
    $430K reported (all issues)
  12. PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION2 reports
    $270K reported (all issues)
  13. University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)2 reports
    $20K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE$22.3M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  14. Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (old: Association of School1 report
    $40K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS OF PUBLIC HEALTH, INC.$1.1M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  15. Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses1 report
  16. Fordham University1 report
    $5,000 reported (all issues)
  17. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION1 report
    $670K reported (all issues)
  18. RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY1 report
    $80K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY$15.3M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  19. The Council for Autism Service Providers (CASP)1 report
    $30K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.