University of California
Berkeley, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720
USA
Speaker: Congressman Barney Frank
Sponsor: Goldman School of Public Policy
5:30 p.m. Reception with Refreshments
6:00 p.m. Presentation and Q&A
First elected to Congress in 1980, Barney Frank represented Massachusetts’s 4th District for 32 years. He is known as a superb legislator and a pragmatic politician whose sharp intellect and sense of humor has made him one of the most influential and colorful figures in Washington. While in Congress, Frank worked to adjust America’s spending priorities to reduce the deficit, provide less funding for the military and more for important quality of life needs at home. As chair of the House Financial Services Committee, he adopted sweeping financial regulations to prevent a recurrence of the financial crisis and was a key author of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.