US Elections Special: Barney Frank's Retirement, Redistricting, and a Damaged Congress

On Monday, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) announced he would not be re-seeking election in 2012. The decision from one of the more colourful members of Congress has met varying degrees of personal reaction from Washington insiders --- an interview on MSNBC explains some of the more acerbic appraisals of his character --- but on a practical level, it has highlighted two issues that have gone largely unnoticed.

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