Chris Dodd: “One step the Senate could take during the lame duck session would be passing the bill to establish a Western Hemisphere…”

It's far more complicated than a common language.

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

President Clinton, to his eternal credit in my view, just does not quit on this issue.

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.