DENNIS A. CARDOZA: “we have a duty, I believe, to raise human rights with dictatorship and not lose that opportunity.”

I look at today's Hill newspaper and I look on page 31. And I oftentimes believe that cartoons and political satire speak much more clearly than the words that we can use in big long speeches. And in today's cartoon, although I can't say…

We simply cannot afford this regulatory burden.

Because ultimately, we are put in place to protect the public interest, and if we lose confidence in these markets, it is going to affect our entire economy.

I find it a bit ironic that my friends on the other side of the aisle are so outraged by this procedure that's been done routinely by both Republican- and Democratic-controlled Congresses. The blanket waiver is to allow maximum flexibility…