ROLL CALL: Republicans Broach Options for Breaking Student Loan Impasse.

House and Senate Republican leaders floated a new round of proposals to break a deadlock with President Barack Obama over extending a student loan program, even as Democrats stepped up their attacks on them.

In a letter to Obama, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) argue “there is no reason we cannot quickly and in a bipartisan manner enact fiscally responsible legislation” and lay out two potential compromises.

Noting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) “proposal cannot pass the Senate and is unacceptable to the House,” the GOP leaders broached two options for paying for a one-year extension.

The first would increase federal employee retirement contributions to pay for the program, while the second includes a suite of pay-fors, including placing a limit on the “length of in-school interest subsidies” and revisions to the Medicaid provider tax threshold.

How about a cap on the amount of loan money a single institution can receive?