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On the recordMay 19, 2011
I might ask the Senator from Iowa, at the end of the day is it not true that while these for-profit schools have about 10 percent of the students in America, they take in almost 25 percent of all Federal aid to education?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 19, 2011

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