WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today applauded the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit's ruling that the U.S. Department of Education must approve $11 billion in borrower defense claims for more than 170,000 students who were defrauded by predatory for-profit colleges. Durbin has worked for years to hold these predatory schools and their executives accountable for exploiting students and fleecing taxpayers while fighting for debt relief for the students they've harmed.
"What you don't know is that although only eight percent of [American college students] go to for-profit colleges and universities,...