Chris Dodd: “I don't want to go to the floor of the U.S. Senate begging for a 60th vote.”

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.

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

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

I frankly don't see the sovereignty issue as playing a role as an impediment as much as the sheer ability of the cartels to corrupt.