On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee begins two days of hearings with regulators and housing authorities to discuss a bill introduced by Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass.

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House Democrats have called for the bill to offer some type of relief and committee chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass.

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Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, an openly gay Democrat, called the bill's passage "the biggest single thing" in terms of the progress of gay rights in the United States.

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Among its biggest boosters were Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, the architects of the massive financial-reform bill passed in 2010 (which contained almost nothing on the GSEs).

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Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, today pledged a new predatory lending bill by year's end.

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You had Barney Frank on one of the morning news shows on Sunday basically saying he voted for this bill, but he didn't support it.

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