Chris Dodd: “There can be no excuse for that colossal failure. But I demand--the victims of this fraud...demand--an explanation.”

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…

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

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

Maybe we ought to be spending a little more time looking at the relationships at that level.