Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose the implementation of the harmful DeVos/Trump borrower defense regulation. Instead of working on behalf of students, Secretary DeVos is enriching predatory for-profit colleges that leave students with crushing debt. Instead of creating a streamlined process to help defrauded borrowers access relief and move forward with their lives, this administration has given dishonest schools new tools they can use to keep taking advantage of students. In my district in 2016, the courts found that the Minnesota School of Business and Globe University engaged in consumer fraud and purposely deceived more than 1,000 Minnesota students who were systematically misled to believe that they would obtain a degree and credits that were essentially meaningless, losing not only $33.8 million, but also their time and countless opportunities. It is the government's duty to look out for those victimized students and to make sure they don't continue to suffer at the hands of the greedy institutions that took advantage of them. Secretary DeVos should be ashamed of herself for failing to uphold that duty and for once again putting profit over people. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this resolution.”