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On the recordFebruary 5, 2019
This isn't a matter of attracting customers to a business, it is a matter of attracting students to a heavily subsidized industry.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin highlighted the reliance of for-profit colleges on federal subsidies.

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