Barney Frank: “What if it is abandoned and it is of not much value and has to be torn down, so people buy it and tear it down?”

Barney Frank said that he believed that it was a war on crypto that motivated this--not a systemic risk of crypto.

I urge staff to pay close attention to the differences in products offered by nonbank institutions and to be mindful of Congress's intent in financial reform that State consumer protection laws be preserved to the extent possible.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac do very good work, and they are not endangering the fiscal health of this country.

One thing that not only Barney Frank, Ms. Barnes and also Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice O'Connor agreed on is that that Kelo decision stripped those three words out of the Fifth Amendment, 'for public use.'