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Tom Harkin: “Lastly, I just say to my friend from Arkansas, who now has assumed the chair, that there was some mention made that this…”

On the recordJuly 9, 1998
Lastly, I just say to my friend from Arkansas, who now has assumed the chair, that there was some mention made that this amendment was a direct threat to the Guaranteed Loan Program and a way of tilting it toward the Direct Loan Program. And, again, I say that nothing could be further from the facts here, because my amendment takes a cut of 25 percent in both the Guaranteed Loan Program and in the Direct Loan Program. It puts them both at 3 percent. So it makes the playing field absolutely level. It does not give one a benefit over the other.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Discussing an amendment related to the Guaranteed Loan Program and Direct Loan Program.

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