Chris Dodd: “It was never my intention to have the U.S. Senate, the House of representatives, or the Congress as a whole do the job…”

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.

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.

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.

Maybe we ought to be spending a little more time looking at the relationships at that level.