Barney Frank: “Being of an optimistic nature, I look for silver linings. So I welcome the fact that my colleagues on the other side…”

“Being of an optimistic nature, I look for silver linings. So I welcome the fact that my colleagues on the other side have decided to adopt gender-neutral language, because a lot of the czars would have been called czarinas in the old days. So I appreciate the fact that we've gotten beyond sex stereotyping of people. Also, I guess they were in a little bit of a hurry. The gentlewoman from Missouri has spoken, the gentleman from Louisiana, and they listed the czars they didn't like. They overlooked one. Maybe it was hard to read. Here's one of the ones they want to eliminate. By the way, you notice that many of the ones they want to eliminate have already been eliminated. They're not there. So they are denying funding for nonexistent positions--climate change, healthcare.”