Christopher Dodd actually said...

"I appreciate Senator Shelby has shared his thoughts with me, as well--that we tried 2 years ago to raise the issue, the closure issue, on numerous occasions in this very room, and had very little resp..."

"This crisis has inflicted serious and wide-reaching damage from which no nation is immune."

"The world is now, as Senator Dodd said, in the crosscurrents of the most severe global economic contraction since the Great Depression."

"This committee and the Congress in its role in foreign policy has been at its strongest when we've been bipartisan."