Globo Diplo

Barney Frank, Congressional negotiator

May 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment

You can’t start off the day thinking about diplomacy without considering the Honorable Representative from Massachussets and his one-liners, nicely published by the NYT.

My fave:

MARCH 11 Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. Mr. Speaker, is blatant hypocrisy a violation of the rules of the House?

Responding to Republican complaints that Democrats had extended the voting period for 15 minutes to win approval of a bill creating an independent House ethics office. In 2003, the Republicans once extended the voting period for three hours to get their desired outcome.

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