Chris Dodd: “I appreciate my friend and colleague's comments, because he is on track and I agree with him.”

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.

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

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.

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…