One more Republican filibuster, one more vote by Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) to screw middle class America. In this case, it's about
177,000 college students in Massachusetts who could see their student loan interest rates double who are getting screwed.
Brown doesn't want to close a tax loophole that benefits wealthy people to pay for extending the low student loan interest rates, calling closing the loophole a "tax increase." Instead, he thinks preventative health care should get the axe. So he joined his Republican colleagues in the Senate on Friday, before heading out for a long Memorial Day break, in a filibuster.
Following the vote, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's campaign took aim at Brown, saying that he put "partisan interests ahead of preventive health services and college students."
"Massachusetts families are well aware of the high cost of tuition, but Scott Brown doesn’t get it, and he has now voted a second time to allow student loan interest rates to double," said Mindy Myers, Warren's campaign manager. "Scott Brown is trying to distract from his record, but the facts are clear. He voted against students and their families again today."
But he voted with Grover Norquist, and that's all that counts for Republicans. That and
obstruction. Brown knows who his masters are, and it isn't the people of Massachusetts; especially not all those students.
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