Debbie Stabenow Quotes
I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college.
Stabenow, Debbie. "Remarks on College Affordability." Congressional Record, 112th Cong., 2nd sess., U.S. Government Printing Office, 24 May 2012.
There has been no other candidate for President who ever made a statement like this. Other candidates typically promise to work hard at a facet of the presidency, or claim that their background or experience will make them very qualified, and many quote others as to their likely success. Trump's authority is Trump. And he assures us that God never created any other president as great as he would be in the area of growing the economy and creating jobs.
This surprising quotation, along with others a far from main steam American views (See {623830} ) assured her election defeat.
Romney, the Republican Presidential Candidate, was advocating budgets to cut the Federal expenditures for Collage Student Grants and Loans.
profit making schools of higher education The latter years of the 20th century saw a large increase in the number of proprietary, profit making colleges and other institutions of higher education. These were able to utilize the Federal student loan programs. However, many were fraudulent rip-offs. Most were unaccredited. The average proprietary school obtained more federal student loan money per student than non-profit schools {639817}, and did not train their students as well. A smaller percentage of their students get their degrees and find jobs. When they do obtain employment they make less money. Congressional pressure, induced by heavy lobbying, stopped Department of Education efforts to make schools with poor graduation or employment rates ineligible for use of Student Loan Programs.
Bush was the first President to explicitly and publicly explain to Americans the relationship between successful high school and college graduation and unemployment where it did not exist. We were moving ourselves into the information age.
Deborah Ann Stabenow is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Michigan, a seat she was first elected to in 2000. A member of the Democratic Party, she became the state's first female U.S. senator after defeating Republican incumbent Spencer Abraham. Before her election to the Senate, she was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Michigan's 8th congressional district from 1997 to 2001. Previously she served on the Ingham County Board of Commissioners and in the Michigan State Legislature.
