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Sen. Shelby says financial reform legislation must include an overhaul of Fannie (FNM) and Freddie (FRE). "For decades, these multi-trillion dollar institutions leveraged the implicit backing of the American taxpayer to encourage mortgage lending to people who could not afford to repay the loans... [until] these ticking time bombs exploded, saddling taxpayers with hundreds of billions of dollars of debt."