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Dick Durbin: I say through the Chair to the Senator from Massachusetts that I have been traveling the State of Illinois, the city of…

On the recordJune 12, 2014
I say through the Chair to the Senator from Massachusetts that I have been traveling the State of Illinois, the city of Chicago, and every campus I stop on there are students who come forward and tell me their stories of the debt they have incurred because of their degrees and the impact it has had on their lives. There are student teachers who sadly cannot take jobs teaching because they owe too much money from college. Is the Senator from Massachusetts hearing that in her State and around the country?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 12, 2014

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