Political Quotes

“perhaps later today or one day this week, we will have debate on the Senate floor and a vote, and that vote literally will decide the future for over 200,000 young Americans. Politicians and elected officials are prone to exaggeration, but I don't exaggerate when I say that, because we will have an opportunity here to debate and vote on a system that was put in place years ago to protect students from being defrauded by the colleges they attend. It is called the borrower defense program. It was started years ago. It was really designed for that rare situation where a student would take out a government loan to go to college after the college made misrepresentations about the education it offered. The student would rely on those misrepresentations, sign up for the school, sign up for the government loan, and learn, to his disappointment, months or years later that the school had lied to him. The school may have told him: If you take this certain course at this school, you will qualify for a certain job or licensure. The school may have misrepresented to the student that the courses they took at the school could be transferred to other schools if the student decided to go to a different university to complete their education.…”