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Deal Gives New Life to Overhaul of Student Loans

New York Times

March 12, 2010

The deal would bundle President Obama's proposed overhaul of federal student loan programs into an expedited budget package along with the Democratic health care legislation, which would allow for both measures to be passed by the Senate on a simple majority vote. Without the deal, the student loan bill would have been unlikely to pass because it lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

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