Barney Frank News

The House is now in a rare Saturday session for the government health care takeover ram down.

A Democratic Maryland congressman says he will vote against the House's health care legislation.

A group of fiscally conservative House Democrats is set to vote on a health-care bill that virtually all of its members think does too little to rein in health costs and keep the federal budget deficit under control.

Tipped off by two unnamed individuals, MyFox Boston claims to have unearthed a police report placing Congressman Barney Frank at the home of his longtime partner when police arrested the man and charged him with marijuana cultivation, possession and paraphernalia.

This is rich Massachusetts US Representative Barney Franks was present at a police pot bust at the home of James Ready's home in Ogunquit, ME, according to reports.

The House voted on Wednesday to accelerate the enactment date of tough new rules for credit card companies after voters complained of a rise in interest rates and steep new fees.

Democratic leaders scrambled Friday to secure enough votes to push major health care legislation through the House this weekend, but opposition from a growing number of Democrats , including Rep.

Congress could merge the Federal Reserve's bank supervisory authority into a newly created national bank regulator as part of regulatory reform under consideration on Capitol Hill, a key lawmaker said Friday.

When Democrats lost races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia this week, officials in both parties suggested that the outcome could undermine President Obama's push for a health care bill, scaring off politically vulnerable moderate Democrats at the very moment the White House needed them to get the bill through.

U.S. credit card companies have done an end run around tighter credit card laws that take effect in February, Rep.

The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 a ' and is likely to go higher.

President Obama signed into law a measure last spring that would prevent credit card companies from raising interest rates on existing balances.

Two years after pleading guilty to crimes he now says he did not commit, former state Rep.

By now, you're probably sick of reading all the competing theories about who and what created the housing bubble of 2003 to 2006 and subsequent bust.

Responding to consumer frustration over rising credit card rates, the House on Wednesday approved legislation to accelerate the implementation of new laws to crack down on abusive practices by credit card companies to December 1. The House voted 331-92 to move up the effective date of recently approved restrictions on credit card companies from the ...

The largest rewrite of financial regulation since the Great Depression will clear the House of Representatives during the first week of December, the influential lawmaker shepherding the legislation promised Tuesday.

House Votes to Speed Up Credit Card Reforms Maloney-Frank bill will implement credit card reforms immediately upon enactment Washington, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved legislation sponsored by Reps.

For gay rights advocates, who suffered a crushing loss in Maine on Tuesday, the road forward seems more complicated than ever.

Share + Nov 4, 2009 5:05 pm US/Eastern Senate Reform Proposal Tri-Committee Reform Plan 1 of 1 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference with House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at the U.S. Capitol on Sept.

Updated at 6:06 p.m. WASHINGTON -- In a sharp rebuke of Wall Street after a string of hefty bailouts last year, House Democrats are considering legislation that would let the government break up even healthy firms if regulators think they've grown too big.