MEDIA ADVISORY: WELCH, COURTNEY TO HOST PRESS CONFERENCE CALLING ON CONGRESS TO PASS BICAMERAL STUDENT LOAN INTEREST ELIMINATION ACT

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Peter Welch issued the following press release:

On Wednesday, July 22nd at 12:00 PM EDT, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. Representative Joe Courtney (D-CT-02), Member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, alongside student loan borrower advocates, will host a press conference on Capitol Hill calling for Congress to take up their bicameral Student Loan Interest Elimination Act (https://www.welch.senate.gov/welch-courtney-reintroduce-bicameral-legislation-to-eliminate-federal-student-loan-interest/), legislation to refinance the interest on federal student loans for all existing and future borrowers to zero percent. The lawmakers' legislation would make ...