Bobby Scott: “Mandatory minimum sentences have been studied and have been shown to disrupt normal intelligent sentencing processes…”

Student loan debt now exceeds $1.7 trillion. Borrowers need clear guidance and certainty.

It’s difficult to articulate how impractical these proposals are, to say nothing of the pain and suffering they’ll inflict on students, educators and their communities, if they were to become law.

Treasury has no expertise serving students or institutions of higher education or monitoring servicers for accuracy.

The administration had been illegally creating these interagency agreements, which are extremely inefficient and wasteful, and also result in inconsistent enforcement of federal education policy.