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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Twenty percent of our population is made up of children, yet children are 100 percent of our future,
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You can impeach a federal judge in this country for the failure to demonstrate good behavior during his tenure. I don't think we want to apply that standard to the future of the presidency. So the standard for evicting, convicting, evicting him from the White House is a very high standard indeed.
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My hope is many of the problems we saw recently hopefully can be alleviated or at least lessened. These aren't just glitches. They can have a profound impact on our elections. We need to do everything in our power to ensure that voters not only are able to vote, but have that vote counted.
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Now, there's no suggestion the vice president is guilty of any crime here whatsoever. But if our standard is just criminality, then we're never going to get to the bottom of this,
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One of the arguments made by the House managers is that you have got to treat the president like federal judges. I think the White House will challenge that.
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I understand how you may be forced into a situation earlier than you'd like where you might not have everything you want, but it's now going into the third year,
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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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I?m very proud of my state, my constituents, my governor, ... I?m proud of the people in the legislature and others who are all taking steps to make a contribution to alleviate the hardships that have fallen on our fellow citizens. It?s a great, great day.
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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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designed intentionally to erect artificial barriers to minorities, the elderly and poor, the disabled and language minorities.
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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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This is just unacceptable we go this length of time without discussing this in full and in the public,
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All over the globe, people are making an effort in this new millennium to reach out and find a new basis on which to have a relationship. And it's long overdue that we tried the same thing, in my view, in this hemisphere, and specifically with regard to Cuba.