Barney Frank: “I'm sorry to see the San Francisco thing go forward.”

One thing that not only Barney Frank, Ms. Barnes and also Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice O'Connor agreed on is that that Kelo decision stripped those three words out of the Fifth Amendment, 'for public use.'

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.

For example, there are key differences in product characteristics between payday, car title, and other high-cost secured loans and more traditional closed-end unsecured lending and related products, and the products are often regulated…

Congress generally, and this subcommittee in particular has historically played a critical role in strengthening accountability at the World Bank.