[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5556]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       STUDENT LOAN INTEREST RATE

  (Ms. SPEIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. SPEIER. Madam Speaker, let me get this straight. My good friends 
on the Republican side are really interested in cutting taxes for the 
wealthy, but when it comes to maybe cutting the taxes that students 
would be paying on the student loans that they have by $1,000 more a 
year, they're not nearly so interested.
  Well, let me read to you a posting to my Facebook from a young woman 
that really hits home. She wrote:

       Going to college was the worst decision of my life. I hate 
     to say it, but it's true. I did everything right. I graduated 
     high school early, at the top of my class. I got all my core 
     courses out of the way at community college, then transferred 
     to a 4-year college, but I couldn't afford it and had to stop 
     just before my last year. It's the biggest regret of my life 
     that I couldn't afford college. I'm not lazy, I'm not stupid, 
     but I had the misfortune of being born poor.

  Madam Speaker, it's time for us to make sure that the poor students 
in our country have the right to go to college and to see it as a good 
decision, not a wrong decision.

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