Barney Frank: “if Federal money is involved, and Federal money is involved in a lot of ways. By the way, I am a great believer in…”

“if Federal money is involved, and Federal money is involved in a lot of ways. By the way, I am a great believer in autonomy for Washington, D.C. I belive they should be able to do what they want to do; but the money does pass through here, so people better be very careful how they draft it, or they may knock out that stadium. But certainly that would be the case. I never ever voted for funding for a public stadium. I am glad to see this because the biggest abuse of this is low- and middle-income taxpayers who are taxed to build public stadiums so people can make tens of millions of dollars having a good time playing ball. And, yes, I do believe if there were any Federal funds involved in either the Texas stadium, and that could include State funds depending upon their fungibility, but certainly it is the case, as I understand what is going on in Washington, D.C., it violates the principles here and it would be stricken by the minority and it would perhaps be stricken by the bill if Federal funds were involved.”