Deal reached on student loans

Published July 18, 2013 12:38am ET



POLITICO – Senators have reached a deal on student loans, Senate sources said Wednesday night.

Key bipartisan Senate negotiators met in Majority Whip Dick Durbin’s Office late Wednesday and emerged confident that they could finally put the vexing issue behind them.


“It would save students in 11 million families billions of dollars,” said Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). “We’d like to be able to do this together and we hope that we can come to a decision right away because families need to make their plans.”

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