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On the recordJanuary 12, 2009
Can you give us some specificity as to how we can make college opportunity more affordable for the young people of America so that more of them can go to college and so that more of them will not leave college with these very oppressive debts?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin seeks specific strategies to reduce college debt and improve affordability.

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