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On the recordApril 25, 2012
What we are doing here is the same thing we have done to the Student Loan Program and the health--we have nationalized it, suppressed the rates, and now we are telling the American public that if you want to have a student loan at all, you have got to come to the Federal government.
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Deborah Koff Ross
Democratic · North Carolina

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Ross criticizes government control over student loans and health care, arguing it limits competition.

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