Opinion: Remembering Barney Frank, trailblazing public servant

from Weekend Edition Saturday · host Scott Simon

Mass. congressman Barney Frank was the first House member to come out as gay and was instrumental in Wall Street reforms after the Great Recession. He died this week at the age of 86.

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