1.   Housing lenders are drowning in uncollectible loans, and bailouts have been arranged for depositors of several failed credit unions.

2.   The Federal Reserve arranged a bailout in which banks and brokerage firms put up hundreds of millions of dollars to keep it afloat.

3.   The IMF arranged the bailout after a crisis that turned Thailand from one of the fastest-growing economies in the world to one of the worst.

4.   They remembered Mexico and knew that if Asian economies collapsed, another bailout would be arranged, paid by U.S. and other taxpayers from international funds.

5.   The group of Republican lawmakers told reporters that while they knew of no laws broken by Rubin, his involvement in arranging the bailout for Mexico was suspect.