Chris Dodd: “There's a direct correlation. When we made investments, we actually had an impact on all of this.”

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.

In fact, it was the uncertainty inherent in a nontransparent and reckless financial system that made Dodd-Frank necessary in the first place.

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.

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