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Congressman Barney Frank | 60 Minutes Archive
Democrat Barney Frank, who represented Massachusetts in Congress from 1981 until he retired in 2013, has died at age 86. In 2008, Lesley Stahl spoke with Frank, the first member to voluntarily come out as gay, about politics, his personal life, the government bailout, and his work as head of the House Financial Services Committee during the financial crisis.
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According to CBS News’s source item, Congressman Barney Frank | 60 Minutes Archive, Democrat Barney Frank, who represented Massachusetts in Congress from 1981 until he retired in 2013, has died at age 86. In 2008, Lesley Stahl spoke with Frank, the first member to voluntarily come out as gay, about politics, his personal life, the government bailout, and his work as head of the House Financial Services Committee during the financial crisis.
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