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On the recordMarch 24, 2010
This is the nationalization of the student loan program. For a long time, colleges on behalf of their students have had the benefit of going with a direct student loan from the government or getting it through the banks. They have voted by their feet, by the overwhelming amount of them going to the banks to get their student loans. Now this reconciliation is going to nationalize student loans, have just direct loans. There are about 31,000 people around the country who have something to do with student loans. Those people are going to be out of work at a time when we are all talking about jobs. We need to do something for jobs. So we're going to nationalize education loans and have that unemployment and then take four call centers around the country to take its place. Do you think college students are going to get the service they get when they have to deal with the Federal bureaucracy redtape? I don't believe so.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa
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Mar 24, 2010

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Grassley discusses the implications of nationalizing the student loan program.

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