Barney Frank: “But I also am sorry that the Representative from Pennsylvania had so little time to spend with us because his…”

They shouldn't lose their tax-exempt status but neither should they be able to go for a Federal grant as they would be under this bill.

Critically I made sure that the United States reserve the right to maintain and enforce existing sanctions and even to deploy new sanctions to address those continuing concerns which we fully intend to do when circumstances warrant.

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

I was particularly pleased that, unlike some others, he did not exclude Muslims from that tradition.