Chris Dodd: “None of us wants to trivialize this situation, and so the issue of executive compensation is not to trivialize it all.”

I'll tell you, one of the things I feel very good about is that there are people like Bob Menendez, who care about these issues.

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…

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.