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On the recordAugust 4, 2009
But the Federal Reserve was responsible for overseeing the banks that made those loans, and/or the mortgage brokers, we gave that power to the Fed and just because they did not write any regulations, we ran into all this mischief.
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Jim Bunning

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Bunning discusses the Fed's oversight failures leading to the housing crisis.

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