Roger Wicker: “I can't vote for it because it doesn't live up to the rhetoric that we have heard from the proponents of the legislation…”

“I can't vote for it because it doesn't live up to the rhetoric that we have heard from the proponents of the legislation in debate today. If you want to come up with a bill to, indeed, make college more affordable for middle America, then count me in. If you want to improve access to a college education for millions and millions of American young people, then count me in. If you want to do something about the very real problem of slowing the growth rate of college tuition, which is really what we should be getting at, then count me in. But I don't think this bill does any of that. And frankly, I am afraid that in the end this legislation, if enacted, would actually make a college education more expensive.”