VIDEO: Obama calls on Congress to act on student loans By Washington Examiner FacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedinEmailPrint May 31, 2013 4:00 am FacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedinEmailPrint Student loan rates are set to double if Congress doesn’t act by July 1. Recommended Stories Texas school choice program rollout beginsNewsom signs bills to combat antisemitism in California schoolsWhy schools and safety suffer more in blue cities TagsBarack ObamaCongressSteve Doty Related Content Magazine Review of ‘Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson’ by Leo Damrosch Magazine Cartel man Magazine Jane Goodall, 1934-2025 Entertainment Taylor’s Swift’s frozen pedestal Magazine How to right-size your life