The youngest member of the House of Representatives called student loan forgiveness an issue of "justice" and urged the Biden administration to enact forgiveness during a virtual Department of Education hearing Tuesday.

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) told Department of Education officials that enacting student loan forgiveness was a matter of social "justice" and that the Biden administration had to move quickly to grant relief after the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden's plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student loans for borrowers making less than $125,000.

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"We can't respond to this injustice with administrative hurdles and government bureaucracies," Frost, 26, said. "We have to act as swiftly as possible to make sure that this relief is enacted."

The Biden administration is pursuing a number of alternatives to enacting student loan cancellation, including issuing a department rule under the Higher Education Act. Last week, the department announced it was implementing loan forgiveness for some 800,000 borrowers through an adjustment of the Income Driven Repayment program.

Frost was one of many individuals who spoke in four-minute increments during the virtual hearing Tuesday. The vast majority of speakers urged the department to move forward with alternative means of enacting student loan forgiveness, with only a handful speaking out against further loan forgiveness.

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The freshman lawmaker has been outspoken about the financial concerns of his generation and announced he'd have to "couch surf" to make ends meet as a congressman. Frost said Tuesday his office has been engaging constituents through constant door-knocking efforts and that student loan relief has become one of their top issues.

"One of the top three issues that we hear at the doors actually has to do with student debt," Frost said. "And believe it or not, we've heard a lot of this from parents and different people, and oftentimes people think that young folks and this generation is in debt because we live beyond our means. But it's not because we live beyond our means, it's because we've been denied the means to live."