Barney Frank: “This is an amendment unanimously supported, I believe, certainly…”

On the recordSeptember 27, 2007

This is an amendment unanimously supported, I believe, certainly strongly supported by both majority and minority committee leadership and staffs. It incorporates a number of other amendments, and I am pleased to be able to say that at least here we were able to get some bipartisanship, because one of the amendments of the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. LaTourette), it improves the program in terms of mapping and other technical ways, and I believe that there is general agreement that this improves it. I reserve the balance of my time.

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Barney Frank

Democratic · Massachusetts

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Discussing a bipartisan amendment during a House floor debate.

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