Barney Frank's Getting Married
Barney Frank, the 16-term congressman from Massachusetts, plans to marry his longtime partner Jim Ready, just in time for them to enjoy Frank's upcoming retirement.
In something of an exit interview with The New York Times Magazine, retiring Congressman Barney Frank took the opportunity to score one last dig against Newt Gingrich, bookending their drawn out match of verbal fisticuffs.
Barney Frank, the 16-term congressman from Massachusetts, plans to marry his longtime partner Jim Ready, just in time for them to enjoy Frank's upcoming retirement.
Joseph Kennedy III, who you can probably guess is a member of that Kennedy family, wants to run for Barney Frank's vacated seat in Congress, reports The Boston Globe.
Barney Frank has never been known for looking put together, but his outfit for his speech on the House floor Monday is attracting a bit of internet attention for being notably ... frightening
A Real Housewife learns a lesson in paying for things, Kate Middleton keeps us guessing, and Barney Frank is now a meat product.
In the three decades it took for Newt Gingrich to climb from impoverished college professor to multi-millionaire presidential candidate, he made some enemies along the way.
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Last night Jon Stewart bid a brief farewell to Barney Frank, who, he notes, might just be missed most by the conservatives who were giddy at the news of the 16-term congressman's upcoming retirement.
In an interview with the usually cheery, softball-question-laden Today show, Barney Frank got irritated with Savannah Guthrie's questions, calling it "gotcha journalism."
Retiring Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank hasn't snarked his last (he's still in office for another year after all) but we're already starting to miss him.
With Massachusetts' Barney Frank announcing he won't run for reelection to Congress next year, America will soon lose one of its few elected officials both willing and able to say rude (and often funny) things on camera.
Barney Frank, the 16-term Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, says he won't seek re-election in 2012.
The Congressman's response: "he talks even sillier than he sometimes does"
Who isn't the Winter Hill Gang leader connected to in Boston?
The duo have unveiled legislation that would leave the issue to the states
Congressman and colleagues object to anti-DADT language
Some Democrats are calling for a larger than planned troop withdrawal this summer
And the Barney Frank lines keep on coming...
"He had no interest in a discussion... It's what he does."
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