Chris Dodd: “This is the moment. This is the moment. We have been given, unfortunately, a moment.”

It's far more complicated than a common language.

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…