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By Senator Jeff Merkley. Editor's Note: The Senator will be joining us live at 3 p.m. to answer your questions here at BlueOregon. America's economy is caught in a vicious vortex. This vortex is created by three interlocking factors; a jobs crisis, a lending crisis, and a mortgage crisis. If we don't address all three crises, the vortex will continue and pull America from a severe recession into a depression, with enormous damage to the financial standing of American families. Since taking office, I've been concerned that not enough attention has been paid to the third component – the mortgage...