Posted on 11/30/2010 7:43:48 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Chris Dodd bids farewell to Senate
By: Shira Toeplitz November 30, 2010 06:27 PM EST
In his final speech on the Senate floor, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd urged his colleagues to work together in a bipartisan fashion and not change the filibuster rules that have guided their chamber.
“The time of my departure has come,” said Dodd, who is Catholic, quoting Saint Paul. “I’ve fought a good fight…I kept the faith.”
Dodd’s final words on the floor mark the end of a three-decade career in the Senate for the Connecticut Democrat, who announced in January that he would not run for a sixth term. The press gallery was packed as many of the Senator’s colleagues listened to his speech on the floor.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s voice quivered when he said he’d bid “adieu” to Dodd – whose speech he called “one of the most important speeches in the history of the Senate.”
At the age of 66, Dodd had spent more than half of his life in Congress. In his speech, Dodd warmly recalled he sat in the same desk occupied by his father, former Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, for the past 12 years.
Dodd said that while some might feel the need to change the Senate rules on the filibuster, he argued it would not help the partisan gridlock in what is supposed to be a deliberative legislative body.
“Now, in my years here, I’ve learned that the appreciation of the Senate’s role in our national debate is an acquired taste,” said Dodd. “Therefore, to my fellow senators who have never served a day in the minority, I urge you to pause in your enthusiasm to change Senate rules.”
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Invest in Democrats (2008)
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-senate-recipients-of-fanni.html
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have also strategically given more contributions to lawmakers currently sitting on committees that primarily regulate their industry. Fifteen of the 25 lawmakers who have received the most from the two companies combined since the 1990 election sit on either the House Financial Services Committee; the Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee; or the Senate Finance Committee. The others have seats on the powerful Appropriations or Ways & Means committees, are members of the congressional leadership or have run for president. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate banking committee, has received the most from Fannie and Freddie’s PACs and employees ($133,900 since 1989). Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) has received $65,500. Kanjorski chairs the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government-Sponsored Enterprises, and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs.
Top recipients of Fannie/Freddie donations:
#1 Chris Dodd #2 John Kerry #3 Barack Obama #4 HIllary Clinton
****Barney Frank ‘Fesses Up on Financial Crisis***
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/sam-dealey/2008/09/23/barney-frank-fesses-up-on-financial-crisis.html
Of course, the faith St. Paul kept was Christianity, while the faith Dodd kept was liberalism.
Too bad, so sad Dodd. Don’t let the door slam on you as you leave. Good riddance. Have I made my point yet?
Along with the Kennedys, Pelosi, and a raft of the other hard-core pro-child-murder Communist traitors in the Federal government.
Show me one Evangelical abortionist commie in government.
What? None?
Must be a statistical fluke...
Pslams 50:16 But to the wicked God says, "What right have you to tell of My statutes, And to take My covenant in your mouth?
Psalms 50:17 "For you hate discipline, And you cast My words behind you.
Psalms 50:18 "When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, And you associate with adulterers.
Psalms 50:19 "You let your mouth loose in evil, And your tongue frames deceit.
Psalms 50:20 "You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son.
Psalms 50:21 "These things you have done, and I kept silence; You thought that I was just like you; I will reprove you, and state the case in order before your eyes.
Psalms 50:22 "Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Chris was trying to refinance with Bernanke Savings and Loan but so far has been unable to locate the Countrywide documents.
Dont let the door hit you in the A$$
Eff off you greaseball. I hope your retirement is miserable and I hope you get hemroids for life.
.... on the way--- OUT! OUT!! OUT!!! OUT!!!! OUT!!!!!
How can we miss ya when ya won’t go away?
INDEED.
But it’s OK, He wears his secret RC magical White Hanky underwear under his suits . . . makes everything he does in them righteous by daffynition.
Only “important” if you consider the fond farewell from a crook who almost crashed the US financial system single-handedly.
Still a lotta house-cleaning to go on in that Millionaire’s Club.
Unacceptable. Absolutely, but
...to my fellow senators who have never served a day in the minority, I urge you to pause in your enthusiasm to change Senate rules.”
We would be wise to understand why he is saying this. He is warning his Democrat allies, not Republicans.
Barney Franks and Schumer need to go, but their constituents evidently don't mind having scumbags represent them.
vaudine
He is a worthless piece of excrement, just like his daddy.
Good call Cicero.
Can you tell me why scum like him Kennedy, and others are not excommunicated?
Hey, maybe that's what some should do in the House if Rangel's punishment is censure (instead of a reprimand).
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