Chris Dodd: “We need to preserve our dual banking system.”

It's far more complicated than a common language.

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

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.

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…