Rep. Barney Frank (DMass.) returns to Congress for his 10th term but will no longer serve as the highest-ranking Democrat on the Judicary subcommittee.

Broadcasting & Cable, November, 1998

Rep. Barney Frank (DMass.) returns to Congress for his 10th term but will no longer serve as the highest-ranking Democrat on the Judicary subcommittee that focuses on copyright legislation. Frank says that with this year's passage of laws that protect copyrighted material online, extend copyrights by 20 years and ratify international digital copyright treaties, the Intellectual Property and Courts subcommittee's most important work is complete for awhile.

Instead, Frank plans to be the ranking member on the Banking Committee's housing subcommittee. Housing always has been an important issue to him, Frank says, and the retirement of Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.) has left the opening.

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