Barney Frank: “It was MIT that was the real hero of this, and to whom I think credit should be given.”

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…

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

This bill--and I will differ specifically with Mr. Labrador on this--empowers people to take my tax money and use it to do things and then exclude me and Jim from its benefit.

the single-biggest issue that we dealt with in Dodd-Frank.