House Proceeding on Jan 22nd, 2009 :: 0:44:40 to 0:45:25
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Barney Frank: action, that our jud to be the same as it was before. i yield -- mr. frank: the question that was asked was if you take the position unless we know the senate's going to do s we shouldn't do t we wouldn't be debating this. i agree with him. it's important for us to express our opinion. in this case unlike yesterday, we passed a bill yesterday that

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Speech By: Barney Frank

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Barney Frank: is still pending in the senate. events change it could be brought up. under the procedures, this bill's dead. it cannot be reconsidered because the senate killed it. the gentlewoman points out that it is the law we passed last year that is allows us to use it, but permits us it doesn't mante t what we are trying to do we agree it's reasonable to have this on the

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Barney Frank: floor but the logic that says we shouldn't have acted yesterday because we don't know what the senate -- the senate said they are not going to do