Barney Frank actually said...

I think the hope we have is that the switches will come among the Republicans.

The only people who really seem to care about the deficit these days are a group of moderate Democrats who are the blue dogs.

The Republicans, of course, controlled Congress, and especially the House, from 1995 until 2006. They never passed a bill to improve the reg...

I think it is likelier to pass than before. But the major difference, frankly, is not what the Senate did, to be honest.