Barney Frank: “I appreciate the gentleman from Texas selectively quoting me. I do not want to pile on studies, but this one makes a…”

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.

We should have made it much higher, $125 billion or more, and we should have indexed it.

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.'