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      <excerpt> For example, Republican T. Scott Garrett of Lynchburg defeated Democratic Del. Shannon R. Valentine by 209 votes out of 21448 cast in the Lynchburg area&amp;#39;s ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Republican Scott Garrett has been warning House colleagues that Mr. Frank&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;death panels&amp;quot; really add up to a &amp;quot;permanent bailout authority&amp;quot; that would ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Another proposed amendment, from Rep. Scott Garrett, RN.J., would authorize a study to be conducted of FASB Statement Nos. 166 and 167 and their impact on ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...3.5% does not force buyers to have enough &quot;skin in the game&quot; to discourage them from missing payments or risking foreclosure. Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) introduced legislation last month requiring a minimum 5% down payment for future FHA loans. Ed Pint</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...say 3.5 percent does not force purchasers to have enough &quot;skin in the game&quot; to discourage them from risking foreclosure. Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., introduced legislation last month requiring a minimum 5 percent down payment. Ed Pinto, Fannie Mae's chi</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Scott Garrett, his fellow Republican colleague from New Jersey, worries about the &amp;quot;Orwellian, government-bureaucrat-knows-best mentality&amp;quot; evinced by the proposal. What the opponents miss is exactly what Aldrich failed to note: Markets ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>FHA accepts down payments as low as 3.5% &#8212; that&amp;#39;s just too low, some say. Harney writes: &#8220;Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., introduced legislation last month requiring a minimum 5 percent down payment for all future FHA loans. ...</excerpt>
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