House Finance chair Barney Frank on the new efforts to help troubled homeowners
“We are very unhappy and have made it clear that the money that was used to buy stock in banks has not been used by all the banks the way it should have been.”
— Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee
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