we are making it far more expensive to get that education.
Thank you.
there is a demand for these loans; therefore, we should simply leave the system as it is and allow these 500-percent loa...
Let me also ask that the record remain open for 1 week for additional statements and questions from Members.
refinancing student debt should be a no-brainer.
When I was Speaker of the House in Oregon, we passed a law that limited the payday loan interest rates down to about 36 ...
This program has come together because of the extraordinary leadership of Chairman Rockefeller.
It is my sincere hope that the tradition of bipartisanship in retirement policy will continue and that the next retireme...
The American taxpayer delivers $140 billion each year to subsidize retirement accounts, but still millions of Americans ...
Lately, however, I have become concerned that there is a political strategy by some in Congress to turn pension policy i...
That is one reason that I and others have proposed reforming Social Security to include a flat, universal benefit set at...
It would cost the Federal Government more money.
this is a program where there is a consensus that it genuinely helps people in need, and particularly our vulnerable chi...
I think we are going to get the question with respect to, so we have the ACA, we have the Affordable Care Act, and it ex...
Obviously there are some private collection agencies that are doing a better job than others, and the system is designed...
I continue to question whether federal student aid is adequately monitoring its contractors to ensure that they are foll...
students are not getting enough information about their options, and that is made harder with the private collection age...
Thank you very much, Chairwoman Foxx. And thank you for holding this hearing today.