No, this wasn't hurried because of Chris Dodd; this was hurried because a whole range of people, beginning with Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke, the Bush appointees who initiated our efforts here, said you really need to get this done quickly; because we were told by the financial community correctly that uncertainty was a problem and to prolong this for another year or so would have added to that uncertainty.
Capuano explains urgency in financial decisions due to uncertainty in the market.
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I don't know, but I am just guessing that if that was somebody else that he didn't like that the President would say that person was lying, and has been lying for day, after day, after day.
You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They would be carried out on a stretcher, folks.
I believe that fraud is fraud, and that States should be free to regulate any form of securities fraud that they see fit.
Elliot Richardson quit. When the President of the United States ordered him to take action he found to be immoral, he quit his job.
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