Chris Dodd: “There was a concerted effort to just virtually eliminate the EEOC, if they could, by strangling it financially and…”

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.

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.

I'll tell you, one of the things I feel very good about is that there are people like Bob Menendez, who care about these issues.

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…