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Barney Frank — the retired US senator who co-authored the Dodd-Frank Act to tighten bank regulations after the 2008 financial crisis — is now under fire over his role in the latest US banking ...
“Barney Frank was quoted as saying that for the most part it leaves Dodd-Frank alone,” Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) told the Intercept, saying the former lawmaker's comments helped persuade ...
President Barack Obama, left, stands with Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., center, and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., right, after signing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in ...
Barney Frank during a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in 2009. The former congressman had been a board member for Signature Bank since 2015.
You would be hard pressed to find a politician who is less frank than Congressman Barney Frank. Even in an occupation where truth and candor are often lacking, Congressman Frank is in a class by ...
Former Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Elizabeth Warren — two key architects of the post-2008 system of Wall Street regulation — are at odds over what’s dragging down banks once again.
This week, grumpy former Washington resident Barney Frank returned to Capitol Hill to defend the financial regulation legislation he sponsored in 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act. According to the Boston ...
Isaac Chotiner speaks with Barney Frank, a former congressman who, after the 2008 recession, sponsored the Dodd-Frank bill, and who now works for Signature Bank. Skip to main content.
Barney Frank, the wisecracking former Massachusetts congressman, has taken to criticizing Bernie Sanders and his supporters in increasingly harsh terms recently. “Bernie Sanders has been in ...
Barney Frank was someone who’d been in Congress for, I think, 27 years, all of them representing Massachusetts. And he was one of the most progressive members of the House Democratic caucus.
Barney Frank served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 2013, representing Massachusetts' 4th District. While in Congress, he served as chairman of the House Financial Services ...
On Thursday, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews brought retiring Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) on his program to discuss a recently released book by Brookings Institution fellow Thomas Mann and American ...