June 4, 2004

Partisan Charges Fly as Lawmakers Quarrel Over Interest-Rate Proposal in Loan-Consolidation Program

By STEPHEN BURD

"He was for it before he was against it."

That's a standard line of attack that Republicans have been using against the likely Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts. It refers to a statement that Mr. Kerry made while trying to explain why he voted for the war in Iraq but against a bill to increase spending on it.

Now the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives education committee, Rep. John A. Boehner of Ohio, is adapting the same line

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