Chris Dodd: “We have an obligation to do our part, that the international efforts are effective, that it's not just about the dollars…”

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

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…

It's far more complicated than a common language.

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.