Barney Frank News

Why is Congress so helpless and so hopeless? We've heard all the fashionable explanations: partisan gridlock; special interests and the impact of their campaign contributions; gerrymandered House districts; an excessively partisan president; a benighted Republican Party dominated by tea party know-nothings. But the real cause is deeper: Congress is ... (more)

Lakeville teen Lily Jeswald is collecting items in preparation for her annual summer yard sale, from which she donates 50 percent of the proceeds to the Joslin Clinic.

The Massachusetts congressional delegation, after holding a rare emergency meeting Wednesday, launched what could be a final effort to preserve more than $250 million in bonus Medicare payments to the state's hospitals that critics call the "Bay State boondoggle." But the prospect of holding on to the windfall is dimming.

In line with decades of opposition to casinos, the House turned aside lobbying by the governor and arguments that New Hampshire should compete with Massachusetts for gambling dollars to vote down yet another casino bill Wednesday.

This means amendments will not be considered to the gambling legislation and the bill is dead.

In the 2014 primary election, the names of state representatives Gary Haluska, D-Patton, and Rep.

Former Congressman Barney Frank, left, and his husband, James Ready, were in San Francisco this week for Frank's appearance at the Commonwealth Club Outspoken gay former Congressman Barney Frank was in San Francisco this week and told a gathering of the Commonwealth Club that while he won't consider a presidential run, he predicted the U.S. could ... (more)

Rep. Maxine Waters during a meeting with community bankers from her district at Malaga Bank in Torrance, March 22, 2013.

Lawmakers in both Washington, DC and Colorado have passed new laws aimed at putting rapists behind bars.

After nearly a month of hearings, testimony and discussions, the Joint House Finance and Ways and Means Committee voted Wednesday by the slimmest of margins to kill casino gambling.

Wake County Superior Court Judge Don Stephens issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday afternoon preventing the City of Asheville’s water system from being transferred to a regional water system.

Turning around seventy years of failed drug policy in America is like making an aircraft carrier do a U-Turn. It takes a while, even after the steering wheel is moved.

If you are driving along and suddenly see a big red rubber ball come bouncing out into the street, you might want to put your foot on the brake pedal, because a small child may well come running out into the street after it.

You wouldn't expect the special election for Tim Scott's vacant House seat in South Carolina to have much in common with the special election for John Kerry's former Senate seat in Massachusetts.

There is news Monday concerning the mayoral run that Anthony Weiner might be making in New York City, unless he doesn't make that run, in which case carry on with your lives.

Commerce Department General Counsel Cameron Kerry - brother of Secretary of State John Kerry - will become acting secretary of commerce when the outgoing acting secretary, Rebecca Blank , leaves at the end of this month.

Rep. Maxine Waters's assumption of chairman of the House Financial Services Committee in January has surprisingly been met with positivity and optimism by bankers, the New York Times reports.

Seven finalists for the town's next generation cyber school board of trustees include a former school committee chairman and a former town councilor.

Two polls released this week - one by Public Policy Polling and another by WBUR-TV - show Republican Gabriel Gomez within striking distance of Democrat Ed Markey in next month's special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry's appointment as Secretary of State.

President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank financial reform law in July 2010, hailing it as an overhaul to prevent the kind of crisis that hit the world economy in 2008 and one of the signature achievements of his first term.