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Virginia Foxx: “My colleagues want us to feel so sorry for these people who took out these loans and who are not going to pay them back.…”

On the recordMay 24, 2023
My colleagues want us to feel so sorry for these people who took out these loans and who are not going to pay them back. My colleague in the 12th District of North Carolina said 121,000 people in her district. Mr. Speaker, you know who I am feeling sorry for? The 622,600 people who are being asked to pay off the bill that those 121,000 people took out willingly and have benefited from. This is a backward way of looking at things. Compassion should be shown to the 622,600 people who didn't take out the loan but are now being asked to pay it back. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Miller), the vice chair of the Committee on Education and the Workforce. {time} 1300
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina
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May 24, 2023

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