Bobby Scott: “You would need legislation, so you can't. It's gone in September unless the Congress passes a bill, and the President…”

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

Codifying this new system without assessing its effectiveness just doesn’t make any sense.

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.

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.