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发帖数: 29846 | 1 这个老小子也开溜了, WSJ上人们一片欢腾.
WASHINGTON—Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, a key lawmaker on
financial issues and a longtime liberal voice on Capitol Hill, said Monday
that he will retire from Congress at the end of next year.
Mr. Frank, 71, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee
was set to announce his retirement at a 1 p.m. press conference in Newton,
Mass., his office said in a statement. It reverses a decision announced
earlier in the year, when Mr. Frank said he would seek re-election for a
17th term in Congress.
Mr. Frank was a driving force behind last year's Dodd-Frank financial
overhaul that bears his name. He has spent much of this year defending the
law against criticism from Republicans.
He is a New Jersey native who worked in Massachusetts politics before being
elected to Congress in 1980. Mr. Frank has been a hero to the left, a
crotchety, no-nonsense type known for verbally sparring with opponents. He
once told an angry woman at a public forum on President Barack Obama's
health-care law that he wouldn't argue with her, that he "would rather argue
with a dining-room table." |
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