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Student Loan Rates Topic of Discussion in Washington.

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President Barack Obama is going on the road again on Friday, May 4 to mat a public appeal for congress to extend low student loan rates for another year.

Republicans and Democrats want to keep the loans at 3.4 percent, but Republicans want to make health care cuts to subsidize them and democrats want to raise taxes to cover the costs.