#86 Planet Money: Barney Frank Checks In




Planet Money show

Summary: If any single player is driving the process for reforming financial regulation on Capitol Hill, it's Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). The chair of the House Financial Services Committee tells Adam Davidson that bipartisan consensus on the issue is beyond reach. As you'll hear in this interview, Frank is an intense lawmaker with very definite ideas about politics and the art of the possible.