Chris Dodd: “We want to figure out a way that it leaves the whole situation much better than when the mess started.”

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.

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