Now that the Democrats are in the majority, Zoe Lofgren, the head of the sub-committee on immigration, thinks a deal is at least a possibility.

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If sub-prime borrowers could be helped to make better decisions, says James Carr, head of research at the Fannie Mae Foundation, sub-prime lenders would have to bring rates down, and many would get prime loans.

ECONOMIST: Lawmakers, state and federal, are mounting an attack

Their cases share a common thread -- repeated concussions, sub-concussive blows to the head, or both.

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