not going to retake the house in this next cycle. jon: from our producer on capitol hill, chad pe revment gram, he's counted seven republicans who will retire and 18 democrats, that includes barney frank. these things don't happen in a vacuum. it suggests that frank thinks he is not going to be winning back maybe a majority seat in the house any time soon. >> reporter: right. that makes it harder, and the thought, if the new district that he would have to try to defend, would be just a little bit more republican and he'd have to go through a contentious series of difficult debates and back and forth, what's the point of that if you're only going to come back and find yourself in the minority. so it's maybe not all that surprise thank congressman frank chooses to hang it up rather than drag through one more difficult cycle. jon: well, and there's been a lot of criticism of the bill that has his name attached to it, the dodd-frank bill. is that part of the mix here? >> notable that neither dodd nor frank will become