Chris Dodd: “I think that is a gap that we do not address well.”

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.

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.

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