Chris Dodd: “The Committee will come to order. Let me thank our witnesses for being here this morning, and colleagues as well.”

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.

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.

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.