Christopher Dodd actually said...

"It is time for a level playing field for financial services competition based on strong rules, not based on exploiting consumer confusion."

"That's why the first piece of the Administration's comprehensive plan to rebuild our regulatory regime and our economy is something I have championed: an independent agency whose job it will be to ens..."

"These families are the foundation, as all of us know, of our economy and the reason that we are here in Washington working on this historic and critically important legislation."

"We have to have a fresh start with a new agency whose sole mission is standing up for the American people."