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Joe Courtney: “I have been on it for a while, and I was around in 2007 when the College Cost Reduction Act, a bipartisan bill that was…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2023
I have been on it for a while, and I was around in 2007 when the College Cost Reduction Act, a bipartisan bill that was signed into law by President Bush was signed, that cut the interest rate from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent over a 5-year period.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Joe Courtney reflects on past bipartisan efforts to reduce student loan interest rates.

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