Chris Dodd: “I feel as strongly as you do that time is not with us.”

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…

It's far more complicated than a common language.

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.