Barney Frank: “Are we saying that America no longer wants to help the disabled, the elderly, and the children?”

I do not believe that we interfere with what the voters can do.

how do you morally justify further disadvantaging that child by denying him or her benefits? Because that's what this bill allows.

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…

It was a great mistake to push lower income people into housing they couldn't afford and couldn't really handle once they had it.