As senator, Obama missed votes on student loan bill he now wants to extend
In 2007, then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama missed two votes on the student loan interest bill that he now wants Congress to extend.
Obama twice skipped the Senate vote on the College Cost Reduction and
Access Act when the bill came to the Senate floor first in July and again in September of 2007, according to public records.
The bill, introduced by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) and signed into law by President George W. Bush,
first cleared the Senate in July on a 78 to 18 vote, with Obama as one
of only four senators who didn't cast a ballot. Obama did not cast a
vote again in September, after the House and Senate had ironed out
different versions of the bill. He was on the conference committee
assigned to merge the House and Senate versions of the bill.
He issued a statement when the bill was signed by President Bush,
saying, "by investing in education we are restoring America's
competitiveness in the world, and today is an important step forward."
Obama has made keeping student loan interest rates low a new priority for his administration — but as a senator, he neither voted for Miller's bill nor signed on as a cosponsor.
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