Christopher Dodd actually said...

"The legislation does not authorize the regulators to impose margin on end-users, those exempt entities that use swaps to hedge or mitigate commercial risk."

"We have established an early warning system so that we never again find out that a financial product or practice is unsafe only after it has already undermined the stability of our economy."

"I would hope my colleagues would take a look at this in the next 2 weeks."

"the absence of capital and the needed availability of liquidity that this Administration does support an extension for another year."