“Mr. DeLay was calling the shots then. I wanted to deal with it. … If Tom DeLay was really susceptible to my suggestions, we wouldn’t have gone to war in Iraq and he wouldn’t have gone on the dance show.”
– Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., speaking Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations Act, which was signed into law by President Obama last year. His reference to former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay came as he was talking before the Senate Banking Committee about the impact of the law.
