Barney Frank: “In the first place, our additional cuts are a small percentage of your cuts to the IRS and the GSA, and I hope they are…”

“In the first place, our additional cuts are a small percentage of your cuts to the IRS and the GSA, and I hope they are restored when we get a broader sets of things. But the basic point is, yes, there were problems with 2004 and before. I believe we have a better-run SEC now, better people who care about it. And to punish the investors, to punish the American public because of past mistakes by the SEC by reducing from one year to the next is a very grave error.”