Barney Frank

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Former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank on Sunday called potential Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson "abysmally ignorant" for his views on homosexuality. (YouTube/CNN)

Elizabeth Warren, center, Special Asst. to the Treasury Secretary on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, speaks during a photo opportunity on the occasion of the anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Bill as Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., left, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., 2nd left, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, 2nd right, and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. right, listen on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 20, 2011.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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This undated image provided by Fotique shows U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., left, and Jim Ready posing at their wedding reception Saturday July 7, 2012. Frank married his longtime partner in a ceremony officiated by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in Newton, Mass. Saturday. (AP Photo/Fotique, Jaime E. Connolly)

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** FILE ** Retiring Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, talks on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, before the start of the 113th Congress. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Rep. Barney Frank, a member of the committee drawing up the Democratic Party platform, said the draft document includes language backing gay marriage. The Republican platform is expected to still define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Barney Frank (left), Massachusetts Democrat, 72, on Saturday wed Jim Ready, 42, in Newton, Mass., with the state's Democratic governor officiating. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Barney Frank (left), Massachusetts Democrat, and Jim Ready pose July 7, 2012, at their wedding reception. Frank married his longtime partner in a ceremony officiated by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in Newton, Mass. (Associated Press/Fotique, Jaime E. Connolly)

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This undated image provided by Fotique shows U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., left, and Jim Ready. On Saturday, July 7, 2012, Frank married his longtime partner in a ceremony officiated by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in Newton, Mass. (AP Photo/Fotique, Jaime E. Connolly)

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Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, got worked up over who deserves credit for a bill that assists community banks.(Associated Press)

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Rep. Barney Frank (right), Massachusetts Democrat, plans to marry his longtime partner, Jim Ready (left), who is from Maine. No date has been set. (Associated Press)