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Every economist will tell you we have to steady the housing market before the economy will turn around
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I'm tempted to keep hearing from my colleagues, but we have witnesses to get to
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Tremendous final floor speech by (at)SenChrisDodd. Stirring end of another chapter in his lifetime of public service
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With this agreement there can be no doubt that this Senate is unified in its commitment to end taxpayer-funded bailouts
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Christopher John "Chris" Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period ending with the 111th United States Congress.
Dodd is a Connecticut native and a graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Maryland, and Providence College. His father, Thomas J. Dodd, was one of Connecticut's United States Senators from 1959-1971. Chris Dodd served in the Peace Corps for two years prior to entering law school at the University of Louisville, and during law school concurrently served in the United States Army Reserve.
Dodd returned to Connecticut, winning election in 1974 to the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut's 2nd congressional district and was reelected in 1976 and 1978. He was elected United States Senator in the elections of 1980, and was the longest-serving senator in Connecticut's history.