Chris Dodd: “Today is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday and I took my daughter up to Lincoln's cottage.”

I'll tell you, one of the things I feel very good about is that there are people like Bob Menendez, who care about these issues.

It's far more complicated than a common language.

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.