Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., received a day-long ban from speaking on the House floor today, and the comments he had made were removed from the record, after he violated House rules with a personal attack on Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas.
“I have never seen truth stood on its head more rapidly than my colleague from Texas [just did],” Frank said today after Hensarling spoke on the House Floor. “For the gentleman from Texas — having been part of the leadership that engaged in that shameful maneuver — to now accuse us of being excessively concerned with credit is the most hypocritical and dishonest statement I have heard uttered in this House.” Before making those remarks, Frank had acknowledged that “you may not accuse anyone else of being disingenuous, under the House rules.”
