Barney Frank
Barney Frank
Barnett "Barney" Frankis a former American politician and board member of the New York-based Signature Bank. He previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. As a member of the Democratic Party, he served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committeeand was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act, a sweeping reform of the U.S. financial industry. Frank, a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, is considered the most prominent gay...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 March 1940
CityBayonne, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents.
The time has come to undo some of those tax breaks,
They not only didn't do anything to protect him, they're not doing anything now to protect people in the future. It's really a disgrace.
It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
It is true that the results of the American intervention in Afghanistan will certainly be a far more democratic Afghanistan, and I welcome that.
You showed your credentials by being able to talk about all this detail, but a lot of people - including Democrats - got sucked into it. They learned the lingo, but they forgot it had no relation to reality. It was like critics of 'The Three Stooges' debating the right way to squirt seltzer up your nose. They forgot that the whole thing was a little silly.
This is a timetable for making sure nothing gets resolved before the elections. I don't understand what's going to take many, many more months other than the need for the Republicans to resolve their political dilemma, which is how do you satisfy your own people who want an impeachment with the general public who appears to be less so.
not diluting the marriage between a man and a woman.
This is very revealing of the hypocrisy of the NRA, ... They would have the second amendment of the Constitution amended so it would also read 'a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of the people, no housing authority shall buy safe guns.'
It's hard to see how anything could be completed before the election.
I hope the regulators understand by now there is, I think, unanimity on this committee that they should experiment, they should be flexible, they should do everything reasonable to get money into people's hands because people need money to eat and to live and because that's the way we're going to bring the economy back,
It was just about the most heartless thing I have ever seen a government do that did not involve absolute loss of life.
That seems to many people an insufficient basis for an impeachment.
And it is not our job to be the high court of appeals that overrules what courts do, state courts and federal courts now, in a particular case.