A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced a budget amendment this week that would bar the federal government from issuing regulations that would crack down on certain career college programs that leave students with large amounts of debt they cannot repay.The proposed budget amendment -- one of more than 400 introduced this week -- is the latest front of an intense war being fought over the Department of Education's "gainful employment" rules, designed to gauge whether for-profit colleges and some community college programs are setting up students for jobs that will allow them to repay their debts.The amendment seeks to dismantle Department of Education regulations that were intended as consumer protection measures.

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