Chris Dodd: “He has been tremendously helpful as we have worked together, through my 37 or 38 months as chairman of the committee…”

“He has been tremendously helpful as we have worked together, through my 37 or 38 months as chairman of the committee, very closely on the housing issues, on the credit card legislation. There have been some 42 measures that have come through the Banking Committee in the last 38 months, 37 of which have become the law of the land. That is a pretty good record out of our committee. It reflects the tremendous effort of members of that committee to help pull together sound pieces of legislation. Senator Menendez has been critical in so many of those efforts. I want to thank him for that and I want to thank him for his ideas on this bill.”