Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

Equal pay
Porter voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The race was considered one of the hottest in the nation in part because the district had been created as a "fair fight" district. Porter was likely hampered by a sharp increase in Democratic registration as well as Barack Obama carrying the district with 55 percent of the vote.

He won re-election in the 2006 midterm election against Tessa Hafen by a 48%-47% margin. Jonathan Christopher "Jon" Porter (born May 16 1955) an American politician was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives the first representative elected from the new 3rd Congressional District of Nevada. On November 4 2008 after three consecutive terms he was defeated by Nevada State Senator Dina Titus a Democrat and professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.