Barney Frank: “I would like to ask all the witnesses if they have views on H.R. 4889.”

I was particularly pleased that, unlike some others, he did not exclude Muslims from that tradition.

It was a great mistake to push lower income people into housing they couldn't afford and couldn't really handle once they had it.

For example, there are key differences in product characteristics between payday, car title, and other high-cost secured loans and more traditional closed-end unsecured lending and related products, and the products are often regulated…

Barney Frank, the author of the Dodd-Frank bill, in this committee, sitting in that chair, who has testified in this committee that he told us that the $50 billion threshold is arbitrary and that we should look at alternative methods for…