Chris Dodd: “The fact of the matter is, when they had the authority, they never did anything with it.”

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…

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.

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

It's far more complicated than a common language.