Top 25 Market Movers
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Barney Frank
Representative to Congress from Massachusetts
As the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank, the colorful and whip-smart Massachusetts Democrat, will play a key role in the new Congress's efforts to resolve the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression while also addressing the regulatory shortcomings that helped create it.
Audio Commentary
"Give me those 12 people's names, and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them and tell them what wonderful people they are, and maybe they'll now think about the country."
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Bio
Date of Birth: 3/31/1940
Hometown: Bayonne, N.J.
Education: B.A. in government from Harvard; J.D., Harvard Law School
Trivia
What do Barney Frank and George H.W. Bush have in common? (They are both left-handed.)