Christopher Dodd

Bush was a lousy president

2013-05-06 04:30:00

I am writing response to the letter writer who stated that the policy of forcing banks to give loans to people who could not afford them was pushed by Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd ("Stop blaming Bush," May 1). The housing bubble burst in 2006-...

It's time to stop blaming Bush

2013-05-01 11:15:00

I am not a fan of former President George W. Bush, but I must comment on the hatchet job that was The Sun's editorial about the opening of the Bush library in Dallas ("Misoverestimating Bush," April 28). During the last two years of Mr. Bush's...

Time to break up the biggest Wall Street banks

2013-01-16 00:00:00

TARP, the infamous Troubled Assets Relief Program that bailed out Wall Street in 2008, is finally over. The Treasury Department recently announced it will soon be completing the sale of the remaining shares it owns of the banks and of General Motors....

Six keys to Obama's second term

2012-11-18 05:00:00

Presidential second terms have a bad name. The traditional view is that presidents are stuck with first-term leftovers on their plates and a calendar that calls on them to get any legislation through Congress in the first 18 to 24 months. After that,...

Delaney, state's newest congressman, starts term

2013-01-03 16:50:00

Maryland's newest member of the House of Representatives, Democrat John Delaney, was sworn into office Thursday amid a flurry of symbolism and celebration but also apprehension over issues left unresolved by the last Congress. The Potomac banker, who...

Maryland investment firms haven't abandoned Democrats

2012-10-14 00:00:00

Wall Street might have turned its back on Democrats this election, but that's not the case among Maryland investment firms. The vast majority of contributions to candidates by T. Rowe Price employees went to Democrats. And Democrats were the...

Will Wall Street prevail?

2012-10-08 03:00:00

Corporate-sponsored groups have launched a campaign of litigation in the lower federal courts challenging the legality of the second major piece of President Barack Obama's legislative program, one that received a lot of attention in last week's first...

KAL cartoon got the causes of the economic meltdown all wrong

2012-06-05 07:30:00

Cartoonist Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher's highly-slanted cartoon about the economy got the causes of the ballooning deficit and financial collapse all wrong (June 3). The second panel should have shown Bush giving the Democratic-controlled Congress in 2007...

Sen. Obama helped create the mess President Obama 'inherited'

2012-06-18 06:00:00

All too often, I hear that President Barack Obama inherited this economic mess that we're in right now. Let's get the story straight for a change. He helped create this mess. In 2005, President Bush tried to push legislation through Congress to place...

Wondering aloud: thoughts on religion and politics, energy and athletics

2012-03-04 00:00:00

Some things I've been wondering about: Do nervous Mitt Romney supporters remember then-Sen. Hillary Clinton thumping then-Sen. Barack Obama in three major primary states just prior to Obama declaring victory in the 2008 Democratic primaries? Does the...

Political Notebook: Congressman Frank rallies local Obama group

2012-04-19 09:43:00

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank is not running for re-election this year, but he has an idea for a bumper sticker his fellow Democrats can use in their campaigns: "We're not perfect, but they're nuts." The joke, one of several jabs the Massachusetts Democrat took...

The imperial hypocrisy of Harry Reid

2012-01-09 00:00:00

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a man whose political success is largely attributable to the aura of befuddled incompetence he uses to disarm his adversaries, was a failed Watergate baby. In 1974, a slew of often sanctimonious and very liberal...

DeLauro is the U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district, serving since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. DeLauro was born in New Haven, and she earned her high school diploma from The Academy of Our Lady of Mercy, Lauralton Hall in Milford.

2013-03-12 00:00:00

Groton, CT August 24, 2005 Sen. Christopher Dodd, left, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, share a laugh with Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell, standing behind them, and next to John Markowicz, Chairman of the Sub Base Realignment Coalition, during a press conference at the Hampton Inn in Groton.

2012-12-18 00:00:00

LOS ANGELES,CA; 8.17.00: Vice presidental candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman, right, embraces Sen. Christopher Dodd after Dodd introduced him during the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night.

2012-12-17 03:14:45