Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Kennedy seeks student lender cuts, shares up

(Reuters) - Kennedy wants to reduce to 97 percent from 98 percent the insurance paid by the government to lenders on defaulted loans and to kill a rule that designates some lenders as "exceptional performers" and makes them eligible for a 2-percentage-point boost in their federal bad-loan insurance rate.




Bush has proposed cutting the insurance rate to 95 percent and the rate for exceptional performers to 97 percent.


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