Senator CHRISTOPHER DODD (Democrat, Connecticut): It is very uncommon for a policy-maker to seek raw data.

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Senator CHRISTOPHER DODD (Democrat, Connecticut): This also is an indication of the kind of trouble Chavez is in.

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Abramoff had told Ney that Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd would join them on the Tigua provision, but then Dodd told Ney he had never signed on.

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And Senator Christopher Dodd, who faces a tough re-election bid, has come under pressure to explain why he did not try to stop such bonuses when he helped to write the bail-out legislation.

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Senator CHRISTOPHER DODD (Democrat, Connecticut): The sort of frenzy that gripped the market over the past several years as many brokers and lenders started selling these complicated mortgages to low-income borrowers who they knew or should have known, in my view, would not be able to afford to repay these loans when the higher payments kicked in.

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Mr. ESQUIVEL: Well, it's been a lot of e-mails from my magazine in terms of election saying that they need to hear more about other candidates like when they're talking about experience, they say, why all the Americans are forgetting that they have two senators who have been a long time in Congress, it's Senator Joe Biden and Senator Christopher Dodd.

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Just over a year ago in May 2007, Senator Christopher Dodd, in his capacity as a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps and Narcotics Affairs, sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice with a laundry list of complaints about paramilitary and narco-trafficker infiltration of the Colombian government.

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Christopher Dodd, a senior Democratic senator and the chairman of the Senate's Banking Committee, for example, has already spoken to the administration of an "unprecedented level of outrage".

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Christopher Dodd was born in Connecticut in 1944, just before his father, who would later become a senator himself, served as a lead prosecutor in the Nuremberg Nazi tribunals.

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