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There is growing concern in Congress that the shaky $6.7 trillion commercial real estate market could implode, delivering a major blow to the economic recovery. A bipartisan group of 79 House members led by Representative Paul E. Kanjorski, Democrat of Pennsylvania, and Representative Ken Calvert, Republican of California, sent a letter to the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve on Monday urging them to take a more active role in keeping the commercial real estate market from turning into a disaster. 

"The growing bubble in the commercial real estate industry has the potential to infect our economy and slow a recovery,” Mr. Kanjorski said. Read more.