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13-H1330 on Mar 21, 2013

• Establishes a 10/10 Loan Forgiveness Program that provides forgiveness to borrowers who, have made 120 monthly payments in the previous 10 years.
• Caps the amount of loan forgiveness that the program will provide to individuals, and caps the interest rate on new loans at 3.4%.
• Includes primary care physicians in medically underserved areas in the public service employee loan forgiveness program.

Opponent's argument against bill: (Blog post on voices.yahoo.com, "Why I'm Against the Student Loan Fairness Act"): The two key points to this bill are:

1. The 10-10 plan: Where an individual would be required to make ten years of payments at 10% of their discretionary income, after which their remaining federal student loan debt would be forgiven.
2. Cap federal interest rates at 3.4% and allowing existing borrowers whose educational loan debt exceeds their income to convert their private loan debt into federal Direct Loans.
   Sounds enticing enough. They make a convincing argument that convinced over 200,000 people to sign their petition, many of whom shared their personal stories of student debt and how this act would change their lives. I disagree with all of them.
   • First, there is already student loan forgiveness act that erases your loans after 20 years. It is called Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act.
   • Many people who signed the petition argued that the government bailed out the banks, so why not us? The main difference [with TARP is that] most banks paid back the loans from TARP [while student loan forgiveness will make] $1 trillion magically disappear.
   • If the average college graduate is 22 years old, then we are talking about being debt free by 32. That is a risk I see many young college students willing to take.

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   Participating counts on VoteMatch question 7. Question 7: Vouchers for school choice Scores: -2=Strongly oppose; -1=Oppose; 0=neutral; 1=Support; 2=Strongly support.
   • Topic: Education
   • Headline: Sponsored 10/10 Loan Forgiveness: cancel college loans after 10 years (Score: -1)
   • Headline 2: 10/10 Loan Forgiveness: cancel college loans after 10 years (Score: -1)
     
     Participating counts on AmericansElect question 6.
   • Headline: Sponsored 10/10 Loan Forgiveness: cancel college loans after 10 years (Answer: C)
   • Headline 2: 10/10 Loan Forgiveness: cancel college loans after 10 years (Answer: C)
   • AmericansElect Quiz Question 6 on Education: When you think about education in the US, which of the following is closest to your opinion?
     • A: School curriculums should be set entirely at a local school board level
     • B: School curriculums should be set more by local school boards than at a national level
     • C: School curriculums should be set more by national standards than at a local level
     • D: School curriculums should be set entirely at a national standardized level
     • E: Unsure
     
     
     
   • Key for participation codes:
   • Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
   • Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
   • Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
   • Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred
   • Surveys: '+' supports; '-' opposes.
   
   
   

   Democrats participating in 13-H1330
   Karen Bass	s2p	California Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Joyce Beatty	s1o	Ohio Democrat	Apr 23, 2013
   Sanford Bishop	s1o	Georgia Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Corrine Brown	s1o	Florida Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Julia Brownley	s1o	California Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Kathy Castor	s1o	Florida Democrat	Mar 25, 2013
   Yvette Clarke	s1o	New York Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   William Lacy Clay	s1o	Missouri Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Emmanuel Cleaver	s1o	Missouri Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   James Clyburn	s1o	South Carolina Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Steve Cohen	s1o	Tennessee Democrat	Mar 25, 2013
   John Conyers	s1o	Michigan Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Danny Davis	s1o	Illinois Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Diana DeGette	s1o	Colorado Democrat	Jun 25, 2013
   Ted Deutch	s1o	Florida Democrat	Jun 5, 2013
   Donna Edwards	s1o	Maryland Democrat (retiring 2016)	Mar 21, 2013
   Keith Ellison	s1o	Minnesota Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Marcia Fudge	s1o	Ohio Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Al Green	s1o	Texas Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Gene Green	s1o	Texas Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Alcee Hastings	s1o	Florida Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Ruben Hinojosa	s1o	Texas Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Mike Honda	s1o	California Democrat	Apr 23, 2013
   Sheila Jackson Lee	s1o	Texas Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Hakeem Jeffries	s1o	New York Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Hank Johnson	s1o	Georgia Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Robin Kelly	s1o	Illinois Democrat	Apr 30, 2013
   Barbara Lee	s1o	California Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   John Lewis	s1o	Georgia Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Zoe Lofgren	s1o	California Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Alan Lowenthal	s1o	California Democrat	Apr 26, 2013
   Michelle Lujan-Grisham	s1o	New Mexico Democrat	Apr 9, 2013
   Steve Lynch	s1o	Massachusetts Democrat (Senate run 2013)	Apr 9, 2013
   Gloria Negrete McLeod	s1o	California Democrat (County run 2014)	Apr 9, 2013
   Gregory Meeks	s1o	New York Dem./Working-Families	Mar 25, 2013
   Gwen Moore	s1o	Wisconsin Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Eleanor Holmes Norton	s1o	District of Columbia Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Donald Payne Jr.	s1o	New Jersey Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Charles Rangel	s1o	New York Dem./Lib. (retiring 2016)	Mar 21, 2013
   Cedric Richmond	s1o	Louisiana Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Bobby Rush	s1o	Illinois Democrat	Apr 23, 2013
   Tim Ryan	s1o	Ohio Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Gregorio Sablan	s1o	Marianas Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Jan Schakowsky	s1o	Illinois Democrat	Apr 26, 2013
   Adam Schiff	s1o	California Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Bobby Scott	s1o	Virginia Democrat	Mar 21, 2013
   Mark Takano	s1o	California Democrat	Mar 25, 2013
   Juan Vargas	s1o	California Democrat	Apr 15, 2013
   Mel Watt	s1o	North Carolina Democrat (appointed to FHFA)	Mar 21, 2013
   Frederica Wilson	s1o	Florida Democrat	Mar 21, 2013

   
   
   

   Republicans participating in 13-H1330

   
   
   

   Independents participating in 13-H1330
   Madeleine Bordallo	s1o	Guam Delegate	Mar 21, 2013
   Donna Christensen	s1o	Virgin Islands Governor candidate 2014	Mar 21, 2013

   
   
   

   Total recorded by OnTheIssues:

   Democrats: 50 Republicans: 0 Independents: 2