Obama student loans

• Republicans and Democrats in Congress favor preventing the U.S. student-loan interest rate from doubling on July 1, though they can't agree on how to finance the subsidy's $5.9 billion cost. Lawmakers in the Republican-led U.S.
(Businessweek)
• The Obama administration Friday threatened to veto a Republican-proposed student loan bill over a dispute about how to pay for it — emphasizing that the GOP proposal would make cuts to programs aimed at womens health.
(Politico.com)
• Obamas order will also set a new gauge that potential students Meanwhile, the latest figures from the Education Department put the default rate on federal student loans for students at for-profit colleges at 15 percent, compared with 7.
(msnbc.com)
• (CBS News) The Obama administration has issued a veto threat of the House version of a bill to extend low interest rates on student loans because the Republican version of the legislation would repeal part of President Obamas health care overhaul.
(CBS News)
• WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) -- John Boehner accused Barack Obama of cheapening the U.S. presidency over student-loan rates as the House was to vote Friday on keeping the rates from doubling.
(United Press International)
• The wrestling match over college loans between President Obama and House Republicans is as manufactured a bout as any ever staged by the WWE. In 2007, then-President George W.
(New York Daily News)
• On Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, tried putting the focus on Obamas travel this week to three college campuses, where the president used rousing rallies to talk up his student loan effort.
(Minneapolis Star Tribune)
• Just because Mitt Romney supports keeping student loan rates low, doesnt mean he and President Obama see eye to eye on how to do so.
(Daily Beast)
• President Obama will sign an executive order today designed and their families to take out costly institutional loans rather than encouraging them to apply for Federal student aid first.
(USA Today)