Topic “deficit”

April 23, 2010

Frank Attacks Wasteful Spending on Brazilian Agribusiness

Asks President Obama to End Cotton Subsidies

Congressman Barney Frank today joined a bipartisan group of House Members in objecting to the decision of the Obama administration to send $147 million a year for the next several years to Brazilian cotton farmers, responding to a World Trade Organization finding that American cotton subsidies have an anti-competitive effect on the rest of the world.
         

February 11, 2009

Cut the Military Budget

The Nation

Cut the Military Budget--II
Barney Frank | February 11, 2009

I am a great believer in freedom of expression and am proud of those times when I have been one of a few members of Congress to oppose censorship. I still hold close to an absolutist position, but I have been tempted recently to make an exception, not by banning speech but by requiring it. I would be very happy if there was some way to make it a misdemeanor for people to talk about reducing the budget deficit without including a recommendation that we substantially cut military spending.

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Speaking Frankly

"A year ago, we were being told, you have to deregulate more. Now, we are going to have to save capitalism from the capitalists."

As quoted in the Boston Globe article, "A Government Cure to the Sliding Economy"

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