Thursday, April 26, 2012

Obama student loans

  • WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of conduct beneath the dignity of the White House. The top House Democrat said Boehner considers the health of women a luxury.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obamas travels around the country to promote a student loan bill are pathetic, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) charged on Thursday, accusing the White House of staging campaign trips at the expense of taxpayers.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The campaign, which is launching this week, starts with the student loan issue. MoveOn.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • It doesn't even pass the straight test, are you kidding me? Congress is preparing for a new fight against Obama over keeping student loan interest rates low. Rates are set to double to 6.8% on July 1 unless Congress acts.
  • (Orlando Sentinel)
  • (CNN)-- This week President Obama did a swing through some college campuses talking about student loan debt. The immediate issue is the 3.4% interest rate on federal student loans. Its set to double July 1 unless Congress acts.
  • (CNN)
  • Re: "President invests in college crowd," April 25 news story. Again we have been honored to have President Obama come to Colorado.
  • (Denver Post)
  • Anya Kamanetz of Fast Company magazine wrote about President Obamas tour of college campuses this week, addressing the interest rate on student loans that is set to double on July 1. Kamanetz argues that  bankruptcy relief also ought to be available.
  • (CNN (blog))
  • House Speaker John Boehner accused President Barack Obama of concocting a "fake fight" over student-loan interest rates as Democrats said the Republican plan to freeze the rate robs money from women's health programs.
  • (NewsMax.com)
  • At his first stop at the Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina, Mr. Obama pressed Congress to stop student loan interest rates from rising significantly this summer.
  • (New York Times Blogs)
  • President Obama and congressional Democrats have leaped on the student loan issue as a partisan talking point, yet its looking like the GOP has outflanked them.
  • (Los Angeles Times)

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