Barney Frank: “The chairmanship does not come with the power to command people how to vote.”

the very vitality of America's free enterprise economy is rooted in property rights, and without them, capital can't make wise investments.

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.

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