Barney Frank: “I will certainly work for that end. I was simply saying I can't negotiate with someone who thinks I am a liar.”

They shouldn't lose their tax-exempt status but neither should they be able to go for a Federal grant as they would be under this bill.

I do think there is a tendency for an overreach by the FSOC. I do not think straightforward insurance companies or money managers should be covered and regulated as SIFIs.

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…

Well, I--look, there are people who think Elvis is alive, but I don't think that's accurate.