While you can generally deduct interest payments and discount points (pre-paid interest) on a qualifying home mortgage if you itemize, you may not deduct processing fees as deductible expenses.
Some of the topics raised by the members' expenses committee have been raised with him before - including the cost of processing claims, a comparison of costs with the previous expenses system and the amount of time MPs were spending processing claims.
Many depend on refunds related to education credits to pay tuition and other expenses and delays in processing those FAFSAs can be problematic (I was a student once, too).