Jim Bunning: “Are you talking about forgiving their debt?”

The unemployment rate as of January 2009 was 7.7 percent. In August of this year, the unemployment rate was 9.6 percent.

I continue to hear from well over 40 Kentucky community banks about the heavy hand of your examiners and their supervisors.

It is approximately $8 billion. We drink more than that in a week up here.

Are the Fed and the GSEs going to aggressively pursue pull-back of mortgages to the originators and investment banks to reduce taxpayer losses?