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Oregon Senator Ron Wyden met with students at OSU-Cascades today to discuss growing concerns over high tuition costs and student loans.  The Senator said he supports legislation to freeze college tuition by providing incentives to states to do so.  He is also looking at legislation to allow students to repay their loans by re-directing debt payments to their retirement plans instead.  

Below is a short video of the meeting with the Senator’s comments.
 

This article appears in Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2016.

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Senator Wyden Talks Tuition Relief with OSU Cascades Students

by Brian Jennings, The Source - Bend, Oregon
October 27, 2016

<h1>Senator Wyden Talks Tuition Relief with OSU Cascades Students</h1> <p class="byline">by Brian Jennings, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />October 27, 2016</p> <p>Oregon Senator Ron Wyden met with students at OSU-Cascades today to discuss growing concerns over high tuition costs and student loans. &nbsp;The Senator said he supports legislation to freeze college tuition by providing incentives to states to do so. &nbsp;He is also looking at legislation to allow students to repay their loans by re-directing debt payments to their retirement plans instead. &nbsp;</p> <p>Below is a short video of the meeting with the Senator's comments.<br /> &nbsp;</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://www.youtube.com/embed/I4UB4EXxY68 </div> </figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/senator-wyden-talks-tuition-relief-with-osu-cascades-students-2767545/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=19815&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/senator-wyden-talks-tuition-relief-with-osu-cascades-students-2767545/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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