One in five adults have student loans, and approximately 20 percent of the outstanding amount of these loans are in default.

Thirty-five percent of all student loan defaults are students from for-profit colleges and universities.

I thank Senator Durbin for joining me in attempting to put an end to this injustice.

Our legislation would address head on the manifest unfairness that student loans, unlike every other unsecured debt, such as credit cards or auto loans, are effectively non-dischargeable in bankruptcy.

If you drag this student into a debt that is unimaginable, unpayable, your institution is going to be on the line, too.

We need to address not only student debt, but the increasing cost of education.

I hope the members on both sides of the aisle and in both Chambers of Congress will come together and pass legislation to restore the Voting Rights Act to its full vitality.

Section 5's preclearance provision broke this legal logjam and helped to stop this discriminatory practice.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of the most effective civil rights statutes that has ever been enacted into law.

Six years ago today, however, the Supreme Court issued its disastrous decision in Shelby County v. Holder.

Without the Religious Freedom Restoration Act the fundamental religious rights of all Americans to worship as their consciences dictate will remain threatened.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said there is no crisis at the border.