Senator Dodd

Congressional Fail: Don't Let Congress Take Credit

Harry Moroz | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics


Harry Moroz

Even as consumers suffer the housing crisis and an abysmal job market, they face the prospect of hundreds or even thousands more dollars of credit card debt because of Congress.

Memories Adjacent to Ted Kennedy

Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics


Matt Browner Hamlin

Teddy never did endorse Senator Dodd for president, and I can't imagine how that may have hurt him. If it did, he never showed it to his staff -- and so people like me who worked for Dodd briefly bore a grudge that our boss would not.

A Letter to Senator Dodd Following His Cancer Diagnosis

Kim Stagliano | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics


Kim Stagliano

You well know that tens of millions of Americans without health insurance remain sleepless when they or a loved one become ill. And I know you're fighting to change that. Thank you.

Health-Care Reform: What I Saw Today on Capitol Hill

Nancy Keenan | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics


Nancy Keenan

We were united in our praise of Sen. Dodd and other members of the Senate for making history by passing the first health-reform bill out of a congressional committee.

Chris Dodd's Peace Corps: "The Ambitious Sense of the Possible"

Laurence Leamer | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics


Laurence Leamer

Dodd's bill was born not in his office in the Russell Building but in the tiny village of Moncion in the Dominican Republic more than forty years ago.

The Universal Rules of Framing Part II: What Does The Proscenium Frame?

Gerald Sindell | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living


Gerald Sindell

Dodd had accomplished the near-impossible: making something said in a Senate committee hearing freshly framed.

Dodd Looks To Wall Street For Re-Election Bailout

AP | ANDREW MIGA | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Wealthy Wall Street executives may be outcasts to some Americans, but not to Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd. Facing his toughest re-el...

Dodd Trails Challenger In Latest Poll

AP | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics


A new Quinnipiac University Poll shows U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd facing a tough re-election bid in 2010 if his challenger is former Republican U.S. R...

Positional Vertigo

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics


Jayne Lyn Stahl

To think of Barack Obama massaging the Patriot Act to win the hearts of faux moderate Republicans, and midwest ranchers, is, at the very least, unsettling.

Opponents of Retroactive Immunity Live To Fight Another Day

Sen. Chris Dodd | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics


Sen. Chris Dodd

Retroactive immunity sends this message: "Trust me" -- a message coming straight from the mouth of President Bush. I would never take "trust me" for an answer, not even from a president on Mount Rushmore.

Sam Stein

Momentum Builds For Dodd Run At Majority Leader

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


As the political season reaches its Iowa caucus climax, momentum is building for Sen. Chris Dodd to parlay his presidential campaign into a bid to cha...

Sam Stein

Dodd Prepares To Filibuster Warrantless Surveillance Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Senator Chris Dodd is poised to take the Senate floor in an effort to derail a measure that would grant immunity to telecommunication companies that h...