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On the recordMay 19, 2011
I thank the Senator from Iowa. He has led the way. His committee investigation on this industry is a clarion call to every Member of the Senate of both political parties. Are we going to continue to waste taxpayers' money? Are we going to continue to allow these schools to exploit veterans and students across America? You cannot turn on the local television here in Washington, DC, where there are a lot of military families, without running into ITT ads trying to lure these young veterans into their programs that are virtually worthless, that end up saddling many of them with debt, if not saddling the government with debt before it is all over. I ask the Senator from Iowa, is it not a fact that when the new leadership came into the new House of Representatives, that in the first few weeks of activity, one of the first things they did was to attempt to stop the Department of Education from regulating this for- profit school industry?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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