Chris Dodd: “I think that the individual mandate is, in fact, the way to go.”

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 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.

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.

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