Barney Frank: “I hope, continue to press for a reasonable approach on the part of the bank examiners.”

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

They shouldn't lose their tax-exempt status but neither should they be able to go for a Federal grant as they would be under this bill.

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 know people in my district who have gone to jail for writing bad checks for $1,000 and yet these people are still walking around.