The bill changes the definition of "financial institution" to include private mortgage brokers and other non-bank lenders will enhance our ability to prosecute criminals under the bank fraud statute who commit fraud involving loans from those companies.

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The fourth is a study by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in California, into changes in the way the world's oceans have warmed up at different depths over the past 65 years.

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Third, while the current focus of reform is on the police, changes are already under way in another notoriously racially exclusive British institution, the armed forces.

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But when I think about Senator Byrd, what I think about is somebody who, during the course of an unparalleled career, not only helped to transform the institution of the Senate but, through his own personal transformation, embodied the kind of changes in America that have made us more equal, more just, more fair.

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