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*From:* Michael Muldoon [mailto:mmuldoon@rosemontseneca.com]
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*Subject:* FW: Frank Sends Letter to Boehner over "Punk Staffers" Comment


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Mike Muldoon

Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC

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*Subject:* Frank Sends Letter to Boehner over "Punk Staffers" Comment


*For Immediate Release:*

March 18, 2010

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Frank Sends Letter to Boehner over “Punk Staffers” Comment


Washington, DC—House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank
(D-MA) today sent the following letter to Minority Leader John Boehner. Mr.
Frank objected to Mr. Boehner publicly calling employees who work in the
U.S. House of Representatives as “punk staffers.”


The following is the text of Mr. Frank’s letter:


March 18, 2010


The Honorable John A. Boehner

Minority Leader

U.S. House of Representatives

1011 Longworth

Washington, D.C. 20515


Dear Minority Leader Boehner,


I was very disappointed to read a quote from you in the Market Watch article
by Ronald Orol, on March 17th, in which you say “Don’t let those little punk
staffers take advantage of you and stand up for yourselves.”


I am appalled that a Leader of the House, who must know what good work is
done by our staffs, would take such an inaccurate cheap-shot at these
people, for the purpose of ingratiating himself with bankers or any other
group. As Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, I work closely with
a large number of the staff members whom you are demeaning by this
statement, and while I obviously have closer working relationships with the
members of the majority staff, I am familiar with the work done by a number
of the minority staff members as well, both for the Committee and on
personal staffs. Your reference to “punk staffers” trying to “take
advantage” of people in the financial industry is wholly unfair to a lot of
hardworking men and women, the majority of whom, in my judgment, could be
making more money if they were working elsewhere, and working under less
stressful conditions and shorter hours. It is of course possible that you
were misquoted, and if that is the case, I urge you to quickly make that
clear. But if Mr. Orol accurately quoted you in referring to the people who
work so hard in the public interest as “little punk staffers,” I urge you to
apologize to them.


I understand that you differ with what we and the majority are doing in what
we believe is appropriate, tough regulation of the financial industry. And
of course you are free to defend that industry and work with them to try to
defeat those regulations. But picking on members of the staff is unworthy
of you. I urge you to confine your campaign against financial regulation to
debates with other Members of Congress, and not engage in this sort of
personal attack on staff members who, as you know, are constrained by our
rules against even defending themselves from your name-calling.


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BARNEY FRANK ##