Barney Frank: “this notion that the Director cannot be removed is fanciful.”

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

Critically I made sure that the United States reserve the right to maintain and enforce existing sanctions and even to deploy new sanctions to address those continuing concerns which we fully intend to do when circumstances warrant.

I was one of three Members of the House who voted against that. Three of us, Ron Paul, Dave Wu, and I voted to allow this bigot to continue to demonstrate his bigotry.

Yes, I was frankly struck that Mr. Labrador went to such great pains to deny this.