Tom Harkin: “This is an epidemic by any yardstick or measurement.”

I introduced the Protect Student Borrowers Act with Senators Durbin, Warren and Murphy--and I want to thank Senator Warren for her great leadership on this issue and many other issues.

We do think that the decisions about what is safe should be made by science and not by politics.

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will to meet on November 20, 2014, at 10 a.m. in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Hearing on the nomination…

The Biden Administration has taken some important steps to right those wrongs, discharging student loans for borrowers who were not able to graduate.