Since the savings and loan mess developed a decade ago, the issues the committee has dealt with have mostly involved unpleasant choices.

How much will it cost to clean up the savings and loan mess?

The nation's governors are calling for a Presidential commission to investigate the savings and loan mess.

We didn't fund a lot of other things this year, like the savings and loan mess.

Because we paid in this savings and loan mess for excesses.

The savings and loan mess has been decades in the making.

Early on, he engineered passage of legislation to deal with the savings and loan mess.

"It comes up every 10 years but this time it has received a big impetus from the savings and loan mess."

The longer Congress ducks an accounting of the savings and loan mess, the larger the final bill that will eventually be born by the taxpayers.

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