Chris Dodd: “I believe that the SEC's gross negligence with respect to the handling of the Stanford case involves even more…”

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…

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

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.