Chris Dodd: “NFIB supports, and helped develop, the SHOP Act sponsored by Senators Durbin, Snowe, and Lincoln.”

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

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.

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