Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Contact Your States Representative and Demand they Support these two Measures and if they don’t - ask them why NOT? Richard Durbin - S.1102 Fairness for Struggling Students Act of 2011 & Steve Cohen - H.R.2028 - Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2011; Please raise your voice on POPVOX & Open Congress – They Need to Hear US!


Call your Senator and Congressperson Today - Address & Phone Directory: (http://wwwngolavante.blogspot.com/p/congress-senate-phone-address-directory.html).

Twitter handles and Facebook addresses will come later today or tomorrow...

Senator Richard Durbin  D-IL is sponsoring a BILL: 5/26/2011--Introduced. S. 1102 Fairness for Struggling Students Act of 2011:

Support this bill through Open Congress;
http://www.opencongress.org/contact_congress_letters/new?bill=112-s1102&position=support

Revises federal bankruptcy law with respect to the exemption from the exception to discharge in bankruptcy for certain educational loans if excepting such debt from discharge would impose an undue hardship on the debtor and debtor's dependents. Limits such exemption to the existing ones for:
(1) an educational benefit overpayment or loan made, insured, or guaranteed by a governmental unit or made under any program funded in whole or in part by a governmental unit; and
(2) an obligation to repay funds received from a governmental unit as an educational benefit, scholarship, or stipend. Repeals the current exemption for:
(1) any loan made under any program funded in whole or in part by a governmental unit or nonprofit institution; and
(2) any other qualified education loan incurred by an individual debtor on behalf of the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, or any dependent, including indebtedness used to refinance a qualified education loan. (Thus makes both kinds of loans nondischargeable in bankruptcy.)


 

Dick Durban Twitter: @SenatorDurbin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dickdurbin    Website: http://durbin.senate.gov/public/

Durbin, Richard "Dick"(D) Senator, IL
Phone numbers: 618-351-1122 Address: 250 W. Cherry Street, Carbondale, IL 62901
Phone numbers: 312-353-4952 Address: John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, Chicago, IL 60604-1483
Phone numbers: 202-224-2152 Address: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510-0001


Co-Sponsors:
    Sen. Al Franken [D, MN] Twitter: @alfranken Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Sen.FrankenWebsite: http://www.franken.senate.gov/
    Added May 26, 2011
    Phone numbers: 651-221-1016 Address: 60 East Plato Boulevard, Suite 220, St. Paul, MN 55107-1833
    Phone numbers: 202-224-5641 Address: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510-0001
    Phone numbers: 507-931-5813 Address: 208 S Minnesota Ave, St. Peter, MN 56082
    Phone numbers: 320-251-2721 Address: 916 W St. Germain St., Saint Cloud, MN 56301
    Phone numbers: 218-722-2390 Address: 515 W 1st St, Duluth, MN 55802

    Sen. Thomas Harkin [D, IA] Website: http://harkin.senate.gov/
    Added October 12, 2011

    Phone numbers: 712-252-1550 Address: Federal Building, Sioux City, IA 51101
    Phone numbers: 563-582-2130 Address: Federal Building, Dubuque, IA 52001
    Phone numbers: 563-322-1338 Address: 1606 Brady Street, Davenport, IA 52803
    Phone numbers: 202-224-3254 Address: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510-0001
    Phone numbers: 515-284-4574 Address: Federal Building, Des Moines, IA 50309
    Phone numbers: 319-365-4504 Address: 150 1st Avenue, NE - Suite 370, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401


    Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI] Twitter: @SenWhitehouse Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SheldonWhitehouseWebsite: http://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/
    Added May 26, 2011

    Phone number: 401-453-5294 Address: 170 Westminster Street, Suite 1100, Providence, RI 02903
    Phone number: 202-224-2921 Address: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510-0001

      Support on POPVOX: “A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, with respect to certain exceptions to discharge in bankruptcy.” https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/s1102

      Representative Steve CohenD-TN is sponsoring a Bill, 5/26/2011--Introduced. H.R.2028 - Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends the federal bankruptcy code to remove qualified educational loans as an exception to discharge from bankruptcy.

      Support this bill through Open Congress: http://www.opencongress.org/contact_congress_letters/new?bill=112-h2028&position=support

      Co-Sponsors:

      Support on POPVOX, H.R. 2028: Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2011 Summary: “To amend title 11 of the United States Code to modify the dischargeability of debts for certain educational payments and loans.” https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr2028

      Please join us @ https://www.facebook.com/StudentLoanDebacleSupportNetworkit is a place where you can sit down, drink a cup of coffee, and chat with people about current affairs or whatever; a supportive network for those in any debt crisis. We all need support at one time or another; sometimes it’s just good to have an ear. Sometimes we just need someone to listen or read what we have to say.
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