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On the recordJune 4, 2018
I think we both would agree that when students default on their student loans, there are many losers: the student, the student's family, America's taxpayers, and you might say other students who are counting on that money coming back into the Treasury for their generation to have a chance at higher education.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin highlights the consequences of student loan defaults on various stakeholders.

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