Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
Christopher John "Chris" Doddis an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period from 1981–2011...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 May 1944
CityWillimantic, CT
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I think the winner tonight was the American public. This was a very good debate, civil debate. I know it probably lacked the fireworks that some would have wanted, but I thought it was a very competent explanation of the two points of view,
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I assume those numbers are correct, because the governor was asked twice tonight to respond to those statistics and refused to challenge them. That is a record on health care that the American people should know about.
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I think there is a question of fearing that if we know more, there is apt to be more panic. And I understand that calculation, but I think it is a miscalculation,
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I think there's going to be an urge by the majority to demonstrate that they can produce legislation, not just impeachments and trials, ... And the president clearly is going to want to show that there's something more to his legacy than having been impeached and tried.
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I thought Joe did a fabulous job, as the vice president did on Tuesday night, of laying out of the significant differences that exist with regard to Social Security and Medicare.
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I thought there might be a few people around. I had no idea that I would encounter this incredible turnout, ... Watching these Connecticut Yankees get ready to help some Cajuns in Louisiana, southerners in Mississippi and Alabama, is a great sight. If you want to know what America looks like, what we ought to look like, take a look at the picture behind you. This is America at its very, very best.
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We can't have you and Mr. Spitzer and the guy in Massachusetts screaming at each other,
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Those of us who have come to know him can only admire his courage and perseverance in the face of adversity that would wither, wither the will of other men.
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designed intentionally to erect artificial barriers to minorities, the elderly and poor, the disabled and language minorities.
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This is just unacceptable we go this length of time without discussing this in full and in the public,
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I want to express my sincere appreciation to President Carter. As far as I know, it is entirely unprecedented in the 17 years of the BRAC process for a former commander in chief to write to save a particular military base from closure.
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Connecticut consumers need an adequate power supply at a fair rate, and frankly, the ISO plan just doesn't cut it, ... The FERC commissioners need to reject this proposal and go back to the drawing board. If not, the Connecticut delegation stands ready, willing, and able to propose legislation to fix this problem.
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The obsession with this one individual at the expense of 11 million others is, in my view, wrong,
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Twenty percent of our population is made up of children, yet children are 100 percent of our future,