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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks with former Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., after signing H.R. 8404, the Respect For Marriage Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Former Rep. Barney Frank rips Signature Bank takeover as wrong move

By Geoff Mulvihill - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 29, 2014, file photo, former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank, right, waves while riding with his husband James Ready, left, during the 44th annual San Francisco Gay Pride parade in San Francisco. Frank and Ready filed a lawsuit Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, against a construction contractor who they said abandoned the building of their home in Maine in May after only completing part of the agreed upon work. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Former US Rep. Barney Frank sues for unfinished work on home

Associated Press

Retiring Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. talks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, prior to the start of the 113th Congress. Joseph Kennedy III is scheduled to be sworn in Thursday, replacing Frank. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Barney Frank: Withholding aid from Ukraine makes Donald Trump an accessory to murder

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2012, file photo, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., speaks about his impending retirement during an interview with The Associated Press on Capitol Hill in Washington. The co-author and namesake of the banking bill passed after the financial crisis a decade ago says he’s confident that it will survive Republican efforts to dismantle it. President Donald Trump vowed to do a “big number on” Dodd-Frank in the wake of the financial crisis. But Frank says he “can live” with the legislation that has passed the Senate. He notes that the bill won’t touch many of the most important features of Dodd-Frank.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Co-author of Dodd-Frank says bill’s foundation will survive

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

In this photo taken Dec. 12, 2012, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the nation's most prominent gay politician, speaks about his impending retirement during an interview with The Associated Press on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Barney Frank accuses Justice Dept. of ‘assault’ on consumer bureau

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Frank: Trump faces difficulties in easing financial rules

Associated Press

President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, in this Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, file photo. Trump signed an executive order that directed the Treasury secretary to review the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial oversight law, which reshaped financial regulation after 2008-2009 crisis. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Cutting back Dodd-Frank? Don’t count on it, says Mr. Frank

By DAVE COLLINS - Associated Press

Illustration on risks in the current housing market by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ROBERT KNIGHT: Supreme Court: Housing lawsuits charging discrimination no longer need proof

By Robert Knight

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

Barney Frank: Ben Carson ‘abysmally ignorant’ for views on gays

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Former Democratic congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts. (Associated Press)

Barney Frank on Obamacare rollout: ‘They just lied to people’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 10, 2014 file photo, Alec Baldwin arrives 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival's Opening Night Gala at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Officials at the Adams Memorial Library in Central Falls, R.I., said Baldwin will headline a fundraiser for the struggling public library June 7, at Fete in Providence, R.I. (Photo by Annie I. Bang /Invision/AP, File)

Alec Baldwin, Barney Frank take to same stage — but dodge gay questions

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Former Mass. Rep. Barney Frank speaks at USC

Associated Press

** 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)

Barney Frank outs himself as ‘pot-smoking atheist’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Homeland Security police officers keep watch along Pennsylvania Avenue a day after the Boston Marathon bombings. Ayo Handy-Kendi (left) and others wear chains to show their opposition to the District not having a voting representative in Congress.

TYRRELL: Fanaticism and violence on the left

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. - The Washington Times

People react as an explosion goes off near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions went off near the finish line, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, David L Ryan)

EDITORIAL: Exploiting the Boston massacre

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

** 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)

Congressmen talk about Boston tragedy, role of government during crisis

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** 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)

Groups aid former Rep. Frank’s Senate push

By Steve LeBlanc - Associated Press

Inside Politics: Retiring Frank hires agent to keep him in spotlight

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, smiles Sept. 21, 2012, at her husband, Sidney Williams (left), during a House Ethics Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington after learning she had been cleared of allegations that she steered a $12 million federal bailout to a bank where her husband owns stock. (Associated Press)

Ethics panel clears Rep. Waters, reproves grandson

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

Illustration by Donna Grethen

KNIGHT: Democratic convention presents the ‘new normal’

By Robert Knight - The Washington Times