Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd is a former U.S. senator from Connecticut, having served in that post from 1981-2011. Dodd also ran unsuccessfully for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination and was a member of the U.S. House prior to his service in the Senate. He was born in Connecticut in 1944, graduated from Providence College and earned a law degree from the University of Louisville. Dodd is married to Jackie Marie Clegg. They have two children.
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Sixty-two percent of all personal bankruptcies are "caused by medical problems."
On whether he wrote a provision that allowed AIG to dole out bonuses.
"The fact of the matter is that my colleague from New York, Senator Clinton, there are 50 percent of the American public that say they're…
"We've got some 37-million of our fellow citizens who are living in poverty; about 12-million or 13-million are children."
"Dodd brought both parties together to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act."
"With the resources it takes to execute just over three months of the Iraq war, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for…
"We're spending $1.6 billion for all of Latin America in terms of aid and assistance, a fraction of what we're spending in Iraq, the $500…
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