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Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. By Daniela Altimari, Mary Ellen McIntire and Niels Lesniewski New Jersey Rep. Thomas H. Kean Jr. hasn’t been seen in…

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Barney Frank, one of first out gay members of US Congress, dies aged 86

Obama hails Frank as a ‘one of a kind’ LGBTQ+ advocate and key architect of ‘sweeping financial reforms’

The Guardian - US

Barney Frank dies at 86: Who was the liberal firebrand behind Dodd-Frank, Wall Street reform, and America’s LGBTQ political revolution?

Who was Barney Frank? The death of Barney Frank marks the end of one of the most consequential and controversial political careers in modern American history. The sharp-tongued Massachusetts Democrat, who helped reshape Wall Street regulations after the 2008 financial collapse and became one of the first openly gay members…

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Gay rights champion Barney Frank dies weeks after revealing his final wish

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The Independent UK

Barney Frank dead at 86: Liberal congressman and gay rights trailblazer dies after health battle

He gave a final interview just weeks before his death

The Independent UK

Former Rep. Barney Frank dead at 86

Former Rep. Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to voluntarily announce he was gay, who rose to lead the House Financial Services Committee at a seminal moment in American economic history, died Tuesday night. He was 86. The progressive Frank had among the sharpest wits of members of the…

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Sweat-drenched Jake Paul disgusts at Kentucky Trump rally: ‘tough look for a man with a line of antiperspirant’

Very, very disrespectful.

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Martin Schram: Biden is having too many Casey Stengel days

You are sitting at your desk in the world’s most famous workplace. Day after day, you are feeling like your supremely skilled experts somehow just managed to paint you into yet another corner in your unique Oval Office.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The ghosts of 2007. Why learn from history when repeating it is so much fun?

Back in 2017, when Congress and the Trump administration were pushing a bill to weaken hard-fought banking regulations, we warned that they were playing with fire. Barely a decade had passed since the 2007-2008 economic meltdown. Blatant abuses in the financial industry had more than merited the tough banking regulations…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Barney Frank, Signature and crypto's role in the banking crisis

The author of the famous Dodd-Frank law hints crypto is a fall guy in the current banking crisis.

Fortune

NY bank's demise: Contagion or a problem with the business?

A New York-based bank's demise was stunningly fast

The Independent UK

Joe Battenfeld: Bank failures fueling insecurity and angst among American voters

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and two other large banks is fueling economic insecurity and angst among an already rattled American public and is prompting a major damage control effort by President Joe Biden.

Boston Herald

Signature Bank was seized after leaders caused ‘crisis of confidence’

Signature Bank was seized by the government Sunday after regulators lost faith in management and depositors fled, according to New York officials.

Tribune News Service

'Nothing to do with crypto': Regulators pour cold water on Barney Frank's claim Signature Bank was targeted

The failure of the crypto-friendly bank has spurred rampant speculation.

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Barney Frank got paid by Signature Bank

Rep. Barney Frank pushed to water down Dodd-Frank law after getting $1 million from bank that collapsed

The Independent UK

Signature Bank seized to send banks a message, director says

A regulatory takeover of a New York-based bank was intended to send a message to banks to stay away from the cryptocurrency business

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Barney Frank’s life is now a graphic novel in ‘Smahtguy’

Cartoonist Eric Orner made his graphic novel debut this month with “Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank” about his former boss.

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