Chris Dodd: “It borders on insulting to the American people who have lost so much in this crisis.”

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

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

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.

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