Chris Dodd: “I appreciate your emphasis on Brazil, and talking about Brazil. And obviously they've done some remarkable things.”

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

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…

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.

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.