Chris Dodd: “I think to say that we have to hold coverage hostage to cost control is to say we're going to hold this small piece…”

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

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…

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

It's far more complicated than a common language.