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On the recordMarch 19, 2012
the baseline for student loans until 2005 was that they were dischargeable in bankruptcy?
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse discusses the dischargeability of student loans before the 2005 law change.

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