USM's Muskie School and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is hosting a fall lecture series entitled: Politics Then and Now, in Maine and the Nation. The speaker is former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, Barney Frank.
Barney Frank, Democrat, served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A leading figure and noted orator in the Congress, Frank chaired the House Financial Services Committee where he co-authored the 2010 Dodd/Frank Act, mandating the most extensive reforms in the banking and financial services industry since the Great Depression, and creating the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
This talk was recorded October 31, 2013 at the Abromson Center, Hannaford Lecture Hall at USM