Christopher J. Dodd: “I think it is important today and I want to commend my colleagues on both sides here for their comments.”

Senator Mel Martinez, of Florida, a Republican member of this Committee, and Dianne Feinstein, the Senator from California, were the two who really argued very strongly.

As Franklin Roosevelt said so eloquently more than 80 years ago, it is fear, and that fearing fear is what has, I think, had an awful lot to do with the lack of confidence in our country, and we need to get our confidence back.

We do not need ideology, and we do not need politics. We need clear-headed thinking.

We need to, as a country, both parties, all of our leaders need to work together to try to reverse this image.