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Barney Frank: 'I Will Either Die Fat or Hungry'

Just before the financial meltdown reared its head, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told biographer Stuart Weisberg that he'd like to be a Cabinet secretary, specifically head of Housing and Urban Development, to cap off his nearly 30-year career in Congress. "I want at least two years with President Obama and a solidly Democratic Senate so that we can get the federal government back in the housing business," he told Weisberg in 2008. When the writer asked if Frank wouldn't rather have the more glamorous post at the Treasury Department, Weisberg told Politics Daily, "He said he didn't want to ...

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