Chris Dodd: “The future belongs 100 percent to them, and that is why Arlen Specter and I, almost 30 years ago, started the Children's…”

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.

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

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

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.