Barney Frank: “Well, I didn't know how long it was going to take my Republican friends to going from talking about their superior…”

“Well, I didn't know how long it was going to take my Republican friends to going from talking about their superior virtue to saying they were just like us. It took less time than I thought. But I would also say that, in the bills that came out of the committee that I chaired, we always had debate, and we always had open rules. But if the gentleman is saying that he now understands why the people on our side did what we did--and I often disagreed, as I said-- he got there more quickly than I thought he would, and that may be the only thing about the way they're running the House that has happened more quickly than we thought it would.”