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Dick Durbin: “Through the Chair again, the choice yesterday was between helping 25 million student borrowers get a lower interest…”

On the recordJune 12, 2014
Through the Chair again, the choice yesterday was between helping 25 million student borrowers get a lower interest rate, saving on average $2,000 a year, and asking 22,000 multimillionaires to pay slightly more in income tax, and sadly only three Republicans would join the Democrats in saying: Let's help the student borrowers. Is that what happened?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 12, 2014

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