Chris Dodd: “If we get the challenge of educating our children right--and I believe we can--everything else will follow.”

I had hoped we'd get in the lame duck session to the ratification of the Colombian Free Trade Agreement and the Panamanian Free Trade Agreement.

But, whether such a temptation is motivated by a noble desire to speed up the legislative process or by pure political expedience, I believe such changes would be unwise. To my fellow Senators who have never served a day in the minority, I…

President Clinton, to his eternal credit in my view, just does not quit on this issue.

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.