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Senate Democratic leaders have decided to pair an overhaul of federal student lending with healthcare reform, according to a Democratic official familiar with negotiations.

Several of the Democrats who are expected to oppose the student loan legislation are centrists who could reconsider their support for healthcare reform if the two issues are joined.

Democrats can only move one reconciliation package through the Senate until the Congress passes a new budget resolution. That means if they do not twin student lending with healthcare reform, lawmakers will have to wait until later this year.

This makes it tempting to stick the Senate’s student lending bill along with a healthcare reform measure in a budget reconciliation package expected to hit the floor later this month.

Source : The Hill

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