Chris Dodd on the Democrats' Rough Year
60-seat Senate majority may have been party's downfall
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country we bring you the unmissable quotes from political conversations on WNYC. On today's Brian Lehrer Show, outgoing Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd reflected on the Democrats’ hard-fought (and still unpopular) accomplishments of the past year.
Chris Dodd is Connecticut’s longest-serving senator, and 2010 is his 30th year in office. It will also be his last. Back in January, Dodd announced that he would seek retirement rather than re-election this November.
He’s gone out with a bang – two bangs, to be exact. This year, after helping to pass the controversial healthcare overhaul bill, Dodd had his name at the top of another divisive piece of legislation: The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Unpopular as those bills have been, Dodd defends them as necessary steps in the right direction. He said that healthcare reform, which was the more divisive issue of the two, needed to happen.
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