Chris Dodd: “When I took over the gavel of this Committee in January of 2007, we held an extended set of hearings...”

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.

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.

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.