Chris Dodd: “It would appear there would be obvious benefits to the principal reduction in that it would allow people to start to…”

President Clinton, to his eternal credit in my view, just does not quit on this issue.

In fact, it was the uncertainty inherent in a nontransparent and reckless financial system that made Dodd-Frank necessary in the first place.

Maybe we ought to be spending a little more time looking at the relationships at that level.

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…