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Here's a rough transcript of this morning's

on the deal reached in Congress over the student-loan interest rate battle.

It would extend the 3.4 percent rate another year, thus avoiding the doubling of the rate to 6.8 percent July 1. (You may remember U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison's stance on interest rates, which I wrote about 

No vote on the deal has been scheduled yet, but Congress should address the matter before its July 4 recess.

This morning, The Daily Circuit's Tom Weber spoke with Matthew Chingos, a fellow in the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy. The comments below are not verbatim.

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Here’s a rough transcript of this morning’s Daily Circuit segment on the deal reached in Congress over the student-loan interest rate battle. It would extend the 3.4 percent rate another year, thus avoiding the doubling of the rate to 6.8 percent July 1. (You may remember U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison’s stance on interest rates, which…

What a Brookings fellow told MPR about the student-loan interest rate debate

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