Chris Dodd: “Make no mistake about it--this position is as important as any that this committee we will consider.”

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

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.

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…

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