Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congressman Frank showed what an extremely articulate person he is," said Eliot Z. Fishman '92, who interned in Frank's Washington office this past summer...
Democratic National Chairman Ron Brown, in a breakfast meeting with reporters, acknowledged Frank was under pressure to resign but said the congressman was right to await the Ethics Committee inquiry...
...Frank's own request, the House Ethics Committee is investigating his involvement with Stephen L. Gobie and Gobie's disputed claim that the congressman was aware he was operating a prostitution service out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment. Frank has said he would await the ethics committee's inquiry...
Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank disclosed his homosexuality in 1987 and was re-elected the next year by a 70% majority. Now the Democrat must again test his constituents' tolerance of his sexual habits. Last week, after the Washington Times broke the story, Frank admitted that in 1985 he paid for sex from a male prostitute who had advertised in a gay newspaper. The Congressman then hired him, with his personal funds, as a $20,000-a-year errand boy for his Capitol Hill apartment. In 1987, Frank said, he decided that the man was using the apartment for prostitution...
...biggest mistake I ever made. I thought I could help him reform." Frank said he has had a faithful male relationship since coming out of the closet, and he will seek re-election in 1990. He expects voters to judge him on his record as a hardworking, liberal Congressman, and explains, "The public didn't suffer. I suffered...