Byron Dorgan: “I wish to say as a starting point that I am very pleased that we have the bill on the floor now, open for debate, open…”

“I wish to say as a starting point that I am very pleased that we have the bill on the floor now, open for debate, open for amendment next week. I hope we keep it on the floor and improve it in areas where it can be improved, make modifications where necessary, but in the end be able to vote for a piece of legislation that will allow us to tell the American people: We understand what happened, and we have tried to take steps now to make sure it cannot and will not happen again. One of the areas where I will offer an amendment--and I understand it will be a controversial amendment--is on the issue of too big to fail.”