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Barney Frank wants Cabinet post [after getting Federal gov't "back in the housing business"]
The Hill, Washington, DC ^ | 2009-09-07 | Bob Cusack

Posted on 09/07/2009 4:02:25 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

Rep. Barney Frank is interested in capping his political career as a member of the president’s Cabinet, according to a new biography of the Financial Services Committee chairman.

Frank (D-Mass.) told author Stuart Weisberg that he would like to be Housing and Urban Development secretary. However, the 69-year-old lawmaker stresses that his departure from Congress is not imminent.

He first wants to pass more legislation on affordable housing, saying, “I want at least two years with President Obama and a solidly Democratic Senate so that we can get the federal government back in the housing business.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 111th; barneyfrank; bho2009; bho44; communists; democrats; duplicate; liberalfascism; obama; socialism; socialistagenda

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