In your conversations with military students, did you stress the fact that there were public programs available before any private loans that would be available to them?

This looks like a, you know, I forget the David Mamet play that the guy in the boiler room saying, you know----

I would suggest that you might consider it.

Do you do any analysis of the correlation between the tuition charged to the servicemember and the full cost of instruction?

We think that is important. I mean, we are a sector that believes everybody in higher education ought to be held to outcomes.

What kind of financial aid counseling do the military personnel get?

Sorry, we can't support you with tuition assistance.

Wouldn't that be helpful?

Mr. President, July 1 is less than 3 weeks away, and unless Congress acts, the interest rate on need-based student loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, making college more expensive for more than 7 million students across the…

We stopped that. You could talk to almost any of our schools today, they are focused on retention.

You've got to advertize. You've got to make students, the military students aware of these options.

Thank you for your service, by the way, as well as for your testimony today.

You should, I think, consider that because I think that would draw attention to those institutions which are meeting and exceeding your expectations and those that aren't.

I just have a problem of being honest with cold calls anyway.

So essentially, again, and I don't want to be too glib, but you were able to call them and say, 'I've got a deal for you. It's not going to cost you anything. Signup right now, we'll make it real easy for you.'

You're making a terrible mistake, and we are not going to support you in this?

I think that is something important.

Mr. President, I ask through the Chair if the Senator from Vermont would yield for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.