Chris Dodd: “But, we ought to figure out how to do that, because if you don't, all you're left with is what you have today.”

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.

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.

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