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

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac do very good work, and they are not endangering the fiscal health of this country.

Congress generally, and this subcommittee in particular has historically played a critical role in strengthening accountability at the World Bank.

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.'

Barney Frank said that he believed that it was a war on crypto that motivated this--not a systemic risk of crypto.