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Barnett Frank (born March 31, 1940) is a retired American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A Democrat, Frank served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2011 and was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act.
A number of town hall meetings in the summer of 2009 focused on healthcare and the introduction of new laws regarding health insurance. [2] Many of these meetings were dominated by protests and angry crowds opposed to the new legislation. They were motivated by a mix of political opposition and fear that changes would harm them or their ...
Town hall meetings can be traced back to the colonial era of the United States and to the 19th century in Australia. [6] The introduction of television and other new media technologies in the 20th century led to a fresh flourishing of town hall meetings in the United States as well as experimentation with different formats in the United States and other countries, both of which continue to the ...
The interview made Frank the first member of Congress to choose to come out while in office, and propelled him into becoming one of the most prominent political faces of the LGBTQ rights movement ...
On the season finale of Who Is America?, Sacha Baron Cohen got under the skin of retired democratic congressman from Massachusetts, Barney Frank. As his ultra-conservative conspiracy theorist ...
Former Rep. Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to voluntarily come out as gay, attended Thursday’s historic House vote to protect same-sex and interracial marriage and praised ...
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Barney Frank [16] Democratic: January 3, 1981 – January 3, 2013 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd 104th 105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th 111th 112th: Elected in 1980. Re-elected in 1982. Re-elected in 1984. Re-elected in 1986. Re-elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Re-elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Re-elected in 1996. Re ...