Chris Dodd: “I was told 100 percent of school bus drivers do not have any sick leave pay. That number, obviously, is a pretty…”

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.

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.

In fact, it was the uncertainty inherent in a nontransparent and reckless financial system that made Dodd-Frank necessary in the first place.

The truth is that the catastrophe was years in the making caused by regulatory negligence and Wall Street gambling.