Chris Dodd: “What we are trying to do here, we would like to make it better tomorrow, but if we can stop making it worse tomorrow…”

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

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.

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.

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…