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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