Virginia Foxx: “I appreciate my colleague's comments, but we are showing compassion to…”

On the recordMay 24, 2023

I appreciate my colleague's comments, but we are showing compassion to the 87 percent of the people in this country who played by the rules and paid their bills or didn't go to college. The 13 percent who did take out debt who haven't paid it back should show some similar compassion to their fellow human beings and not ask them to pay their bills. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Allen), a member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce.

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Virginia Foxx

Republican · North Carolina

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May 24, 2023

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