Good grief.

(ABC News) — Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., blames an unconscious culture of sexism for the failed appointment of Elizabeth Warren to the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

“Part of it I have to say was gender bias,” Frank said on the House Floor today.

Warren, a former Harvard professor, was tapped as a White House adviser and helped set up the newly formed CFPB, but she was ultimately passed over by the Obama administration. Instead, they nominated former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to lead the start-up government agency. The CFPB is a new federal agency that will put regulators in charge of policing the financial services industry.

It was widely assumed that Warren would not have obtained the necessary 60 votes to overcome a filibuster of her nomination.

Warren was the subject of harsh questioning from Republican members of Congress and during her numerous appearances before the House Financial Services Committee when she was working to create CFPB.

Frank did not say who he blames for gender bias — the White House for not nominating her or Republicans in the Senate for promising to block her nomination.