It just seems like, to me, this is another example of how middle-class families are getting squeezed.

A third of all seniors have less, or as they approach their senior years, have less than a year's worth of income and a third have no savings at all.

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So America and its allies are committed to preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and we are committed to protecting our allies throughout the region, including Israel.

the value of the temporary sanctions relief, I take it from all you have said, is minuscule in comparison to Iran's economy.

It is essential to ensure that our taxpayer dollars are going to schools that are good stewards of this investment.

This dual-track policy that we are on now--imposing tough sanctions on Iran while engaging them diplomatically--I think reflects this commitment, and that approach has clearly brought Iran to the negotiating table.

We should not be loading our students down with debt that they are going to be obligated to deal with for a lifetime when they did not get an education in return for that.

Should there be a bright-line beyond which we say a school should not be accredited?

We have got to give the information to our students and to the Federal Government so that we are not pouring more resources into a place that is not providing a top quality education.

If accreditors are doing the main thing we need them to do, which is to crackdown on poor performing schools, that there is a problem here.