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Heidi Alexander: “I wonder if I might ask, through the Chair, the Senator from Michigan a question. I notice her chart on 7 million…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2013
I wonder if I might ask, through the Chair, the Senator from Michigan a question. I notice her chart on 7 million students, and I wonder which 7 million students she is talking about. My understanding is there are 11 million students who will take out new student loans this year, I believe that 2 million of them are low- income students who get subsidized loans, and that the Democratic Senator's proposal would help those 2 million students by keeping their rate at 3.4 percent instead of 6.8 percent. So who are the 7 million students the Senator from Michigan is talking about?
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Heidi Alexander
Labour Party
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Jul 9, 2013

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