Chris Dodd: “In the Madoff hearings, stats, I asked for there to be reports every 3 months from the SEC.”

In fact, it was the uncertainty inherent in a nontransparent and reckless financial system that made Dodd-Frank necessary in the first place.

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 frankly don't see the sovereignty issue as playing a role as an impediment as much as the sheer ability of the cartels to corrupt.