Barney Frank
Candidate for United States House of Representatives
Fourth District of Massachusetts
- Running for a 14th term in the U.S. House of Representatives
- Election date: Nov. 4
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Barney Frank was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980. Prior to entering Congress, he served in state and local government, including 8 years as a Massachusetts State Representative, and 3 years as Chief Assistant to Mayor Kevin White of Boston.
Congressman Frank is a 1962 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard University, and a Cum Laude graduate of Harvard Law School in 1977.
In Congress, Frank is the senior Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, which has jurisdiction over legislation relating to banking, housing, insurance, the securities industry, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and the Federal Reserve System.
In his first year in office, Frank was voted the outstanding freshmen Member of Congress in a survey conducted by Public Television. The Almanac of American Politics has called Frank "one of the intellectual and political leaders of the Democratic Party in the House, political theorist and pit bull all at the same time." Politics in America has noted his "penchant for trying to match liberalism with hard-nosed pragmatism in order to move the legislative ball."
During his tenure in Congress, Frank has worked to diminish economic inequality; increase the stock of affordable housing; expand American's civil rights laws; promote the development of a healthy business climate; improve legal protections against discrimination of all kinds; enhance access to health care; support a safe, democratic Israel; preserve Social Security and Medicare; implement meaningful environmental protection laws; transform the military so it more closely meets the realities of the current world; press for human rights around the world; bring fairness to U.S. immigration law; address the inequalities that result from economic globalization; increase funding for the first responders who play a crucial role in homeland security, and reform the way Congress operates by bringing it under the same laws that cover the private sector.
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