Christopher Dodd actually said...

"I would like to create an entirely new process within the Commission so that these matters are centralized."

"President Bush has made the request. President-elect Obama has endorsed the request, and said that this is a tool that he needs as the President-elect coming in."

"I appreciate Senator Shelby has shared his thoughts with me, as well--that we tried 2 years ago to raise the issue, the closure issue, on numerous occasions in this very room, and had very little resp..."

"This crisis has inflicted serious and wide-reaching damage from which no nation is immune."