Chris Dodd: “I mentioned in my opening statement that the Federal Reserve made a decision to pay off at par value sophisticated…”

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.

President Clinton, to his eternal credit in my view, just does not quit on this issue.

It's far more complicated than a common language.

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…