{"id":19893,"date":"2015-03-19T14:01:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T18:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19893"},"modified":"2015-03-19T14:27:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T18:27:56","slug":"bank-on-students-emergency-loan-refinancing-act-floor-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/19\/bank-on-students-emergency-loan-refinancing-act-floor-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act Floor Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Warren <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=436824193146746&#038;permPage=1\" title=\"Elizabeth Warren's Facebook post\" target=\"_blank\">posted a video on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSince last year, nearly a million more people have fallen behind on their student loan payments. Young people who are working hard to build a future deserve a real opportunity to succeed, and that means letting struggling borrowers refinance their student loans to take advantage of lower interest rates. Yesterday afternoon I gave a speech reintroducing the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act to give much-needed relief to millions of borrowers, help boost our economy, and strengthen America\u2019s middle class.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9twskoT14EI?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>As John Oliver might ask, &#8220;Republicans: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LxQq8HTtb4A\" title=\"Example of How Is This Still A Thing?\" target=\"_blank\">How is this still a thing?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"plain\"\/>\n<p>Has anyone noticed that the YouTube videos that people share on Facebook no longer have the link back to YouTube, let alone a credit for YouTube? This may make some perverted sense to some business type at Facebook who doesn&#8217;t want to give credit to a competitor while benefiting from the services of that competitor. Somehow, though, I think making the life of your own customers more difficult is not going to be a winning strategy. We do notice such things.<\/p>\n<p>For each video, we used to have a link to one item on YouTube. Now Facebook is forcing us to go fishing in YouTube land to find the video. Does that sound like a good business decision to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Warren posted a video on Facebook. Since last year, nearly a million more people have fallen behind on their student loan payments. Young people who are working hard to build a future deserve a real opportunity to succeed, and that means letting struggling borrowers refinance their student loans to take advantage of lower interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19897,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19893\/revisions\/19897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}