Community bankers say their ability to make loans to small businesses will suffer if the program is withdrawn. Cynthia Blankenship, vice chairwoman of Bank of the West in Grapevine, Tex., a Dallas suburb, said that about 15 percent of its $350 million in assets were protected under the program.
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