The Democratic Party‘s former point man on financial regulation has a low estimation of Sen. Elizabeth Warren‘s pet legislation.

Appearing Wednesday before the House Financial Services Committee he used to head, former Rep. Barney Frank, the architect of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law, dismissed the idea of reinstating Glass-Steagall, the Depression-era law that split investment banks from commercial banks that Warren has advocated reinstating.

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