A petition drive aimed at nudging Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to put the ever-fiesty Barney Frank temporarily into the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry’s confirmation as secretary of state ended up collecting close to 10,000 signatures — and won’t be submitted....
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Representative Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts, at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte.
Barney Frank Senate Petition Push Appears for Naught
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Retiring Rep. Barney Frank on Capitol Hill on Jan. 3, 2013, prior to the start of the 113th Congress.
Barney Frank’s Senate Bid Backed by Petition Drive: MoveOn Member
Barney Frank broke somewhat with traditional political decorum — such as that is — with his public pitch to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat that will come open upon Democrat John Kerry’s expected confirmation by his colleagues as secretary of state. “Coach, put me in,”...
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The Morgan Stanley headquarters in New York.
Wall Street Hedged No Election Bets
With Republicans angry about the financial regulations pushed through by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, the securities and investment industry was the only major source of campaign contributions to switch sides in 2012 compared with 2008, giving a record...
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Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Republican from Texas, right, and Representative Eric Cantor, a Republican from Virginia, during a news conference following a Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol.
Frank’s Frank Hensarling Talk: `Complete and Total Irrelevance’
Rep. Barney Frank, who spent two years leading the House Financial Services Committee, says incoming chairman Jeb Hensarling of Texas will bring “complete and total irrelevance” to the committee. “Legislatively, he’s so far out of the mainstream,” Frank, a Massachusetts...
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Scene from the ad featuring Representative Barney Frank in the "Mitt Gets Worse" campaign from the Courage Campaign Super PAC.
Frank Hits Romney on LGBT Rights
A Mitt Romney presidency would represent “a serious setback” for the gay community, Rep. Barney Frank says in a new super-PAC-backed Web video. “First of all, he might very well re-institute `Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,’” Frank says during a five-minute video that...
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Sanford "Sandy" Weill
Banking’s Sandy Weill: Latter-Day Nobel Playing with Dynamite?
Sanford Weill is blowing Washington minds. The former Citigroup CEO who helped engineer the country’s current financial system in the late ’90s says he now thinks investment banks and commercial banks should be split up. His change of heart voiced...
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Rep. Barney Frank, center, walks down the aisle with his husband, Jim Ready, during their wedding ceremony in Newton, Mass., on July 7, 2012.
Same-Sex Marriage & Private Equity
Democrats such as Barney Frank, the retiring congressman from Massachusetts who recently celebrated his wedding with Jim Ready, aren’t the only ones promoting gay marriage as a political cause. The campaign for ballot measures in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington...
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Rep. Barney Frank and his partner Jim Ready in Newton, Mass.
Barney Frank Weds, Pelosi Spins to ZZ Top (with `Outsourcer-in-Chief’)
Wedding bells rang for Barney Frank this weekend. The first sitting member of Congress to have a same-sex marriage called for a unique celebration. Nancy Pelosi dancing to ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man” qualifies as unique. (And here’s a sign...
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