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July 22, 2008 Bitter Holocaust Battle Plays Out on Capitol Hill
... among others, secured a victory late last month when the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, ...
July 22, 2008 UNIVERSITY PROF DEBUNKS POLITICIAN'S ATTACK ON INTERNET GAMBLING
The recent defeat of Congressman Barney Frank's HR5767 which sought to halt implementation of the controversial UIGEA regulations was due in no small ...
July 22, 2008 House of Representatives Passes HR 4049, 'Money Services Business ...
Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Chair of the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Barney Frank ...
July 22, 2008 Housing Bill Headed to House Floor
On Tuesday, House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank , D-Mass., said the package will not include a dollar limit on the Treasuryâs lending, ...
July 22, 2008 US Lawmakers Reach Deal on Fannie, Freddie Bill (Update2)
... US lawmakers reached agreement on a rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that the House may vote on tomorrow, Representative Barney Frank said. ...
July 22, 2008 Summer in DC: Scandal, not sandals
for sexual misconduct with House pages. In July 1990, the House reprimanded Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) after he admitted a lengthy relationship with a male ...
July 22, 2008 US Economy Defies the Gloom in Past Quarter
At a July 16 hearing, Massachusetts Democratic Representative Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said ``if the numbers on ...
July 22, 2008 Lawmakers move to curb Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac pay
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the House Financial Services Committee chairman, said a new regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should have the power to ...
July 21, 2008 Regulators shun licensing
In November, the House Financial Services Committee, chaired by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., approved legislation that would require states to license all ...
July 21, 2008 A housing rescue nears â but for whom?
... African-American or Hispanic," said Rep. Barney Frank (D) of Massachusetts, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, in a statement last week. ...
July 21, 2008 They should have seen this coming
Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial ...
July 21, 2008 Congress Is Set to Limit Down-Payment Assistance
"We're going to yield to the Senate on that," said Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and a supporter of the ...
July 21, 2008 Professor: Rep misused gambling research
Derevensky also raised his concerns about the research being misused in a letter sent to Rep. Bachus as well as Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass. ...
July 20, 2008 Frank mediates mortgage rescue plan
WASHINGTON - At first, it looked like the same old Barney Frank who appeared on CNBC last Monday morning, wearing a rumpled gray suit and his customary air ...
July 18, 2008 Crypto-Gramm
Earlier this week, I asked Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chair of the House Financial Services Committee, what his take was on Gramm's comments. ...
July 18, 2008 Mortgage Giant Freddie Mac Considers Major Stock Sale
... to shareholders or issuing big paychecks to their management, says Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. ...
July 18, 2008 Scorned LNG proponent is digging in
Republicans seized on the measure, sponsored by US Rep. Barney Frank (D-Newton), to criticize Democrats over energy policy. âIf this qualifies as a wild and ...
July 17, 2008 âEquality is not goodâ Barney Frank and the putrefaction of ...
By Bill Van Auken Chairing a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday, Representative Barney Frank (Democrat of Massachusetts) let slip ...
July 17, 2008 Securitization and the Mortgage Mess
His counterpart in the House, Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.), chairman of the Financial Services Committee, blames securitization of mortgages for ...
July 16, 2008 New Bill Shoots For Internet Gambling To Fund Job Training
Representative Barney Frank was unsuccessful in his attempt to have the UIGEA overturned with a Bill that was defeated in the House. ...
July 16, 2008 YOUR VIEW: Massachusetts will reap casino benefits
By Steve Norton In the July 13 Boston Globe, Matt Viser reported on the position of US Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., regarding Internet gaming. Rep. ...
July 16, 2008 The Ticker
By Staff and wire reports The US House approved a bill, filed by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), giving âwild and scenicâ environmental protection to the lower ...
July 16, 2008 On The 700 Club, Robertson smeared Rep. Frank with false claim ...
Summary: On The 700 Club, Pat Robertson falsely claimed that Rep. Barney Frank "was caught running a group of male prostitutes out of his DC residence. ...
July 15, 2008 Dionne: Old economic assumptions are toppling
The old script is in rewrite. "We are in a worldwide crisis now because of excessive deregulation," Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House ...
July 15, 2008 Wall Street Fears Wave Of Bank Failures
Critics of the companies say that Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.), the current chairman of the committee, also helped put forth the companies' arguments. ...
July 15, 2008 Momentum Surges for Effort to Create New GSE Regulator
Last week several lobbyists said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank had little leverage to make the changes he wanted. ...
July 14, 2008 Democrats Back Paulson Plan, May Set Vote This Week (Update1)
By Brian Faler July 14 (Bloomberg) -- US Representative Barney Frank praised the Bush administration's rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and said ...
July 14, 2008 Barney Frank Opposes Offshore Drilling For Fishing Industry
By Jeff Poor With oil trading above $145 a barrel, exploration and drilling for oil could provide economic opportunities for Rep. Barney Frankâs (D-Conn. ...
July 14, 2008 Treasury, Fed Propose Safety Net for Mortgage Giants
REP. BARNEY FRANK: ... we passed the bill in the House. It got bogged down by the Senate's filibuster rules. And this year we passed the bill. ...
July 14, 2008 Plenty of Blame to Go Around for Fannie, Freddie
Critics of the companies say that Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.), the current chairman of the committee, also helped put forth the companies' arguments. ...
