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On the recordNovember 15, 2010
I encourage every possible effort to try to make this modification track work better because it is an abysmal failure in terms of national policy right now and our economy and our families are going to--are suffering and will continue to suffer if we do not figure out how to do it better.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley emphasizes the need for improvements in mortgage modification processes to alleviate economic suffering.

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