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Jim Bunning: Well, even if we write it into the law, they don't do it, because in 1994, we wrote it into the law that they monitor…

On the recordJuly 22, 2009
Well, even if we write it into the law, they don't do it, because in 1994, we wrote it into the law that they monitor all mortgages within the banking system that they control and within the mortgage brokers.
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Jim Bunning

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Senator Bunning criticizes the Federal Reserve's failure to enforce mortgage regulations.

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