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Dick Durbin: “The courts finally stood by [the students] and gave these…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Applauds Ruling Approving $11 Billion In Claims For Students Defrauded By For-Profit Colleges

Published | Video Starts at 08:05

Or worse, it could be a debt that trails you for years and years, if not decades in your life. Thank goodness for these students. There's thousands of students who were benefited by President Biden's decision. The courts finally stood by [the students] and gave these students a second chance. It's been a situation I run into time and again. I have threatened some of these for profit schools as a way of getting them to drop the loans that they were enforcing on these students. (08:05–08:09)

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