Chris Dodd: “Thank you to our panel of witnesses. You are just excellent witnesses and are providing a tremendously valuable service.”

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…

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.