[GeronL]

I’ll believe that when I see it.

[KoRn]

While I tend to agree with the Republicans on this one, but to even be allowed to be perceived as blocking this will be one of the most politically ‘tone deaf’ things I’ve ever seen. We’re talking political suicide in an election year. Not very smart to say the least.

This will be demagogue’d 24/7 by the media, and it will piss off the middle class parents of kids that are in college. The votes of the political zombie college kids are a lost cause, but when you get their parents to voting with them because of something like this, you’re just asking for it.

The dems will be up to bat, and the R’s will be throwing them a hanging curve ball, right down the middle.

[Uncle Slayton]

A great deal of the money loaned to college students is ultimately used on birth control and abortions.

We need to stop these Student Loans all together.

[Cementjungle]

There are sill some Republicans in the Senate? I’m amazed... we never seem to see any action from those elusive figures.

[Rome2000]

Washingtonians playing us rubes for suckers and paying lip service to tweaking an activity the Feds have absolutely no business being involved in the first place.

REPEAL THE SEVENTEENTH AMENDMENT!!!

[Leep]

Go get em... tiger...?

[TheRobb7]

Random Cajones’.....GOP version.

[firebrand]

Those are the only two places funds could be gotten from? Each one is anathema to the other side.

Why can’t we take some of the $200 million going to the terrorists?

[redgolum]

To block it would be a very bad move on an election year. The GOP is a fat cat who likes firing people (quoted), and they want to raise interest on student loans?

Are they trying to drive people to the socialists?

[Principled]

The swap should be a vote on obamacare repeal... let us vote on the repeal and we’ll play ball.

[The_Reader_David]

And, why exactly, when mortgage rates, rates paid on savings accounts, and a lot of dollar denominated bond yields are at record lows, should the rate charged on student loans double?

We can debate the propriety and utility of the Federal Student Loan program (we'd probably be better off not encouraging everyone to go to university and giving scholarships to those who really ought to be going, provided they major in some traditional discipline, not [Grievance-group] Studies), but until major structural reforms which will not take place until there is at least GOP, or better conservative, control of both Congress and the White House take place, raising student loan interest rates is functionally equivalent to a tax increase on the young, and will produce a corresponding drag on the economy.

[EGPWS]

Senate Republicans will block Democrats from taking up a White House-backed bill to cap rates on some student loans

Best thing I've heard since the senate Republicans said that 0bamacare was DOA in the senate.