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Barney Frank: “Preliminarily, I yield myself 15 seconds to say the gentleman from Texas said the American people don't care about this…”

On the recordMarch 7, 2012
Preliminarily, I yield myself 15 seconds to say the gentleman from Texas said the American people don't care about this intrigue. Then the question is: Why do they involve in it? Why do they engage in it? Why didn't they just leave the bill with the sponsors? So apparently they cared enough to play that double-game. I now yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Maloney).
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Mar 7, 2012

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