Chris Dodd: “We always talk about how we are going to reform this process to some degree to make it less agonizing for the people who…”

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

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

I frankly don't see the sovereignty issue as playing a role as an impediment as much as the sheer ability of the cartels to corrupt.

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.