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Barney Frank: “I am from Massachusetts, but I do want to report a theft, Mr. Chairman. Apparently someone has broken into our committee…”

On the recordApril 18, 2007
I am from Massachusetts, but I do want to report a theft, Mr. Chairman. Apparently someone has broken into our committee office and stolen a whole series of bills that the other side had to deal with all these other things, because I am hearing now about all these other things we should be doing and these other things that we should be addressing, and I haven't seen any of them. So I want to say to people, unfortunately, all these wonderful ideas that you previously had, and I wouldn't suggest that you are only saying them now as an excuse to beat this bill, please send me copies, because somebody stole the ones you sent me.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Editor's note · Context

Addressing the theft of bills from the committee office during a discussion.

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