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Barney Frank: “The gentleman has been very tough on this issue, appropriately, and he is right. Some people can read ambiguity into 2…”

On the recordNovember 15, 2007
The gentleman has been very tough on this issue, appropriately, and he is right. Some people can read ambiguity into 2 plus 2, and we will deal with that. We are lawyers. We are into redundancy. So in the colloquy I will be having with the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Miller) we will reaffirm the point that the gentleman from Connecticut is making. I guarantee that by the time this bill comes out of conference, no one will be able to raise any doubt about the prohibition on anybody being compensated for costing the consumer more.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the clarity of a bill related to consumer compensation during a floor debate.

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