Christopher Dodd actually said...

"Thank you very much, Chairman Bair, and thank you again for your tremendous involvement over these many, many months."

"But like the Glass-Steagall Act and the Securities and Exchange Act, it will require very good, competent, energetic regulators."

"What we have done with this legislation is to eliminate the gaps, the overlaps, and the shortfalls that allowed some financial actors to game the regulatory structure."

"the Dodd-Frank Act also calls for the largest and most systemically important banks to meet higher capital requirements."