Chris Dodd: “This gets you over a hump but doesn't deal with the long-term problems.”

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.

It's far more complicated than a common language.

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…

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