Chris Dodd: “I had one guy one time--the last one was about 15 years ago, and some guy showed up dressed as Abraham Lincoln.”

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.

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.