Barney Frank: “I originally wanted it to be a single director. The intraparty votes in the House... wanted it to be a commission, so we…”

I want to respond to Ms. Waggoner who reads the bill--yes, you read the bill; you don't read every other line.

Yes, I was frankly struck that Mr. Labrador went to such great pains to deny this.

I hope that the committee will.

I was one of three Members of the House who voted against that. Three of us, Ron Paul, Dave Wu, and I voted to allow this bigot to continue to demonstrate his bigotry.