Chris Dodd: “If the Senator will yield 5 minutes of his time for one Member who would like to be heard on the amendment? I have no…”

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.

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.