Chris Dodd: “I urge you to expeditiously facilitate his confirmation as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration.”

In fact, it was the uncertainty inherent in a nontransparent and reckless financial system that made Dodd-Frank necessary in the first place.

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.

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.