Barney Frank: “we plucked this arbitrary 10-year number out of the air and put it into the statute.”

I do guard the station. I hope you're not, Representative Mulvaney, equating a tax exemption with a Federal grant.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may not exercise any rulemaking, supervisory, enforcement, or any other authority including any authority to order assessments over a motor vehicle dealer that is predominantly engaged in the sale…

Barney Frank, the author of the Dodd-Frank bill, in this committee, sitting in that chair, who has testified in this committee that he told us that the $50 billion threshold is arbitrary and that we should look at alternative methods for…

I was particularly pleased that, unlike some others, he did not exclude Muslims from that tradition.