Let's be frank: these speakers probably sound awful.
The swaps provision Espaillat referenced as diluting Dodd-Frank -- which the native Spanish speaker often calls "Dodd-Franks" -- and the fiduciary issue were both highlighted in a recent HuffPost investigation into the relationship between Wall Street and the Congressional Black Caucus.
Speaker after speaker offered refreshingly frank advice on confronting the challenges faced by Madison Avenue as it struggles to emerge from its worst downturn in decades.
President Obama and the House speaker, John A. Boehner, held a "frank" meeting on Thursday at the White House to discuss how to avoid the tax increases and spending cuts set to kick in early in 2013.
Mr. Corzine's strategy was simple: maintain his own strong standing among the electorate while demonizing Mr. Franks as an ideological clone of Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House with whom Mr. Franks had forged close ties in Washington.
THE anxiety among consumer marketers over the sputtering economy was palpable throughout the 2002 annual meeting of the Association of National Advertisers here, as speaker after speaker offered unusually frank admonitions to concentrate scarce corporate resources on reasserting the power of name-brand products.
The former House speaker said that the Dodd-Frank Act, Obama's financial reform bill, was stalling the recovery of the housing market.
As speaker, she passed the Dodd-Frank legislation to rein in Wall Street after the great financial collapse of 2008, and the $787 billion Recovery Act of 2009 that saved or created millions of jobs, among dozens of other major initiatives. .
The allegations creeped their way up the GOP ranks to House Speaker Paul Ryan, who reportedly personally asked Franks to get out immediately.
