Obama stumps for student loan plan, hails new Web rules -- latimes.com

President Obama today called for support of his plan to expand loan and grant programs for college students and also embraced new federal rules that will require Internet providers to treat all Web traffic equally.

A White House-backed measure now before the Senate will help more students with financial aid for secondary education and remove banks as the unnecessary "middle man" in the lending process, the president told a crowd gathered at Hudson Valley Community College over the noon hour...