Stacking The Deck

I'm trying to understand why Barney Frank is listening to this witness list as he's thinking about financial sector reform:

• Mr. Richard Trumka, President, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
• The Honorable Richard Baker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Managed Funds Association
• The Honorable Phillip Swagel, Visiting Professor, McDonough School of Business
  Georgetown University
• Mr. Scott Talbott, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, The Financial Services Roundtable
• Mr. Steven A. Kandarian, Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
• Mr. R. Michael S. Menzies, Sr., President and Chief Executive Officer, Easton Bank and Trust, Co. on behalf of the Independent Community Bankers of  America
• Mr. Peter Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies, The American Enterprise Institute
• Ms. Jane D’Arista, Americans for Financial Reform
• Mr. Edward L. Yingling, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Bankers Association
• Mr. T. Timothy Ryan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

For those of you keeping score, that's two voices from the left (Trumka and D'Arista), two from the right (Swagel and Wallison) and six industry shills. People tell me that Democrats control both houses of Congress, but given the witness list I'm skeptical.