Providing for Congressional Disapproval of the Rule Submitted By the Department of Education Relating to ``Waivers and Modifications of Federal Student Loans''

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Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution.

I want to say something. My Republicans colleagues are pushing a narrative that student debt relief is unfair. To my colleagues, I agree with them. I agree that what is going on is unfair.

Folks who paid off their debt, the fact that they had to have it in the first place is unfair. The fact that students still have to take out crushing student debt just to get a college education, that is unfair.

If we legislated using the logic that you bring to this issue here today, women and Black folks wouldn't have the right to vote because it would be unfair to those who never got to vote before then.

See, if we legislated using your logic, that because there was an injustice we can't fix it because it is unfair to those who never had it fixed, means we would never progress on any issue in this country.

Why do you bring that * logic to this issue as it relates to students but not any other issue?
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Mr. FROST. If we use this logic on every single issue, we would never have progress on anything.

The truth of the matter is that young people and people don't have student debt because we live beyond our means. We have student debt because we have been denied the means to live. It is important to understand that.

Congress needs to help fix this damaged economy, which gets more unequal and inequitable every single day. This resolution today is not delivering that help. It is making things worse. To people watching at home, to young people, the people with student debt, just know that the Republican Party here, my colleagues in this Chamber, are fighting to take away the relief that you need and that you deserve.

This is about fairness. True fairness is ensuring that everyone has equitable opportunity. Twenty million constituents robbed of relief by their own Representatives is what this resolution is about.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''

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