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Dick Durbin: “I have threatened some of these for-profit schools as a way of getting them to drop the loans that they were enforcing…”

On the recordAugust 19, 2026
I have threatened some of these for-profit schools as a way of getting them to drop the loans that they were enforcing on these students, because I know what happens in the end.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Describing his actions against for-profit schools.

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