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Chris Dodd Christopher John “Chris” Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician serving as the senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
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 is now the longest-serving Senator in Connecticut’s history, the 9th most senior of current Senators and one of three from the 1980 freshman class who is still serving.
Dodd served as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1995 to 1997. He serves as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. In 2006, Dodd decided to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, but eventually withdrew after running behind several other competitors. In January 2010 Dodd announced that he would not run for re-election in the 2010 midterm elections. (Wikipedia Jan 2010)
Faked Reform
By John Schroy, on June 27th, 2010 | 
The immediate cause of the worldwide financial Crash of 2008 was the extensive granting of sub-prime mortgages.
The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill introduced in Title XII, “IMPROVING ACCESS TO MAINSTREAM FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS”, a new, fraud-prone solution to a non-existent problem, the granting of $2,500 loans to middle and low income borrowers.
In combination with other political funds, this program could be an extremely powerful tool for voter fraud. In fact, it is difficult to imagine why else it would be inserted into the Dodd-Frank Act.
Market regulation
By John Schroy, on June 16th, 2009 | 
The financial reforms of the New Deal lasted for over fifty years and were based on two years of work by the US Senate Pecora Commission, spanning two administrations with bipartisan support.
In contrast, the Obama “reforms” are being concocted in secret to be rushed through the Pelosi-Reid Congress, already famous for passing substantial legislation in the dark of night, without reading the text.
Historically, slap-dash, one-party ‘reforms’ have not survived a Congress controlled by the other party.
Good and bad banks
By John Schroy, on May 8th, 2009 | 
In May 2009, the Obama administration divided some of America’s largest banks into ‘good banks’ and ‘bad banks’.
This broke a long-standing practice of protecting the reputation of the US banking system. The Obama government seized TARP funds as an instrument of political power.
Banks, large and small, are now eager to escape the trap of taking TARP funds, which will require them to raise $74.6 billion, either by selling equities on the market, or from profits.
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