Warren writes: "This week, the Senate passed a student loans bill that asks tomorrow's students to pay drastically higher interest rates to finance lower rates today. The vote may be over, but our fight to make college more affordable - and the fight for a better deal for our students - is just getting started."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren testifies during a hearing on Capitol Hill about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg)

I'm in This Fight for the Long Haul

By Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren for Senate

01 August 13

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e won't win every fight - at least, not the first time out.

This week, the Senate passed a student loans bill that asks tomorrow's students to pay drastically higher interest rates to finance lower rates today.

The vote may be over, but our fight to make college more affordable - and the fight for a better deal for our students - is just getting started.

In May, I introduced the Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act to give students the same low interest rates that the big banks get. If those 0.75% rate is good enough for the big banks, it's good enough for our kids who are trying to get an education. And as long as the government continues to make hundreds of billions in profits off our students, I'll keep fighting.

In the long term, we need to do three things:

First, we must eliminate government profits from student loan programs - period.

Second, we must refinance existing student debt to reduce the profits that are crushing our young people and dragging down our economy.

And third, we must reduce college costs so that American families can send their kids to school without mortgaging their futures and burying themselves in debt.

I'm in this fight for the long haul, and I'll keep working to attack these problems head-on and find solutions that will provide a real shot at an education for all of our students.

Thank you for being a part of this - for the long haul.