Frank: 'If They Want To Kill Consumer Protection, Let There Be 41 Jim Bunnings

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Frank: 'If They Want To Kill Consumer Protection, Let There Be 41 Jim Bunnings Over There'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/03/frank-if-they-want-to-kil_n_484040.html

Rep. Barney Frank reacted angrily on Wednesday to a proposed bipartisan compromise on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency in the Senate.

"That's not coming over here," Frank told HuffPost, insisting that the House wouldn't agree to putting consumer protection authority inside the Federal Reserve, as Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is proposing.

"I thought that was a joke," he said. "Even by Senate standards, that's mind-boggling."

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"It's like making me the chief judge of the Miss America contest," Frank said. "It's already been in the Federal Reserve!"