Chris Dodd: “I want to recognize who is in the audience.”

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

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.

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…

Maybe we ought to be spending a little more time looking at the relationships at that level.