奥巴政府要求议会降低学生贷款利率(2/2)
概述：奥巴马总统走访多所高校，探讨学生贷款问题。高校学生贷款改革势在必行。hints:
Federal Reserve Bank
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University of North Carolina
Mitt Romney
Republican Party
House of Representatives
Democratic Party
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答疑：常小猫http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201205/201205010602352041167.mp3The Federal Reserve Bank of New York collects financial information. It says Americans owed $845 billion in student loans last year. Some reports say the amount is now near $1 trillion.
The administration says 7.4 million students will be affected without a new law. This week, President Obama traveled to several college campuses. At the University of North Carolina, he talked about his own experience.
"I guess that we didn't come from wealthy families. So we, when we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt. When we married, we got poor together."
Supporters of low student loan interest rates have promised a campaign to get new legislation. An extension is estimated to cost the government $6 billion . Mitt Romney, the Republican Party's likely presidential candidate, supports an extension. Republican leaders in the House of Representatives say they like the popular program. They just differ on how to pay for it.
Republicans want the money to come from the new health care reform law. The Democratic Party has proposed increasing taxes on some businesses, including oil and gas companies. Last Tuesday, President Obama put his argument to music on a late-night television program.
"Now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people."据纽约联邦储备银行收集的财务信息显示，去年美国所负担的助学贷款额度高达8450亿美元，且有报道称现已接近一万亿美元。
政府表示，若不出台新的法律，将有740万学生受到影响。本周，奥巴马总统视察了几所学校，并在北卡罗莱纳大学谈及了自己的亲身经历。
“我认为我们（奥巴马及夫人）都不是来自富裕的家庭，所以从大学和法学院毕业时，我们的债务堆积如山，结婚后便一起陷入了贫穷。”
支持低助学贷款利率的人们承诺将为促成新法案而发起运动。据估计，政府可能需要为延期支出60亿美元。最有可能当选的共和党总统候选人米特·罗姆尼对延期表示支持，而且众议院中的共和党领导人们也称他们对这项广受欢迎的议案很有兴趣，只是在如何支付这笔资金的问题上略有分歧。
共和党还是希望能够将用在新医改法案上的资金用于此处，而民主党则寄望于增加含油气公司在内的一些企业的税收。上周二，奥巴马总统在一档午夜电视节目中伴着配乐陈述了他的观点。
“现在还没到要让年轻人花更多钱去读书的时候。”
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