Chris Dodd: “I have had hearings on the obesity issue. Senator Harkin has been a champion in talking about the quality of food and…”

The truth is that the catastrophe was years in the making caused by regulatory negligence and Wall Street gambling.

I rise today to introduce the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, GLSMA, Reauthorization. Six years ago, my former colleague Senator Gordon Smith and I introduced the original GLSMA to address the public health challenge of youth suicide by…

We need to start thinking 'intermestically' about domestic immigration and international economic development policies at the same time.

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…