Christopher Dodd News

The battle to stem foreclosures creates strange bedfellows. In the battle to stem foreclosures, two left-leaning policymakers have formed an unlikely alliance with mortgage investors.

The invitation to a $1,500-a-plate fundraiser on June 17 for Dodd's re-election, hosted by health care lobbyists.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which has come under increasing fire for proposed rate hikes as high as 32 percent, won't get increases as large as it wanted on individual policies, according to Connecticut regulators.

The first hints at 2Q fundraising numbers are dripping out for the three declared Republican candidates for Senate, and it looks like a four-way primary with no real favorite may be in the offing: Longtime Republican fundraiser Tom Foley has burst onto the political scene by raising more than $530,000 in the first 26 days since announcing he is ...

Colleen Flanagan , former press secretary for U.S Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina and flak for Chris Dodd, is back in Connecticut as the communications director for state Democrats.

HIV/AIDS Funding At Risk? Governor Signs 'Madoff' Bill HIV/AIDS Funding At Risk? by Chris Clark July 3, 2009 10:52 AM Posted to Congress U.S. Sen.

Senator Christopher Dodd Democrats in Congress and media reports have been claiming that "almost" 50 million Americans lack health insurance.

The Consumer Financial Protection Agency would be in charge of regulating credit cards, savings accounts and mortgages in the same way other government agencies regulate the safety of drugs, food and toys.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday squared off with the insurance lobby over industry charges that a government health plan he backs would dismantle the employer coverage Americans have relied on for a half-century and overtake the system.

The Kent Democratic Town Committee is the perhaps the first in the state to jump off the Chris Dodd bandwagon.

Vote Martin on Tuesday Gay voters can put a friend on the Nov. ballot, and teach Vernon Jones a lesson about pandering to the right Canada becomes fourth nation to approve gay marriage Poll shows most Canadians want new law to stand Ala.

As President Obama today applauded a prescription drug deal he called a "major step forward" in health care reform, Sen.

U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd , who has long favored civil unions over same-sex marriage, now supports equal rights for gay and lesbian couples.

Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd:A a oeMy goal here is to write a good bill. My goal is not bipartisanship.a I thank this scum-bucket, snaky, corrupt, oily, smelly, sanctimonious, second-generation senator from Connecticut for being straightforward.

Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., right, accompanied by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee ranking Republican Sen.

"As President Obama's effort to overhaul the health care system seems to hit one roadblock after another in Congress, he is counting on Senator Max Baucus [D-Mont.], a political shape-shifter and crafty deal maker who is not fully trusted by either party, to help him clinch his top domestic priority," the New York Times reports in a profile of the ...

Citigroup Inc. is increasing the base salaries of many employees - reportedly by as much as 50 percent for some workers - as it restructures their compensation amid government restrictions on bonuses.

House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank scoffed Wednesday at assertions that a new consumer protection agency would morph into "some out of control entity." "There is no pattern of overregulation I can see in the consumer area, and I don't see one here," Frank, D-Mass., said at a hearing on the Obama administration's proposals to overhaul ...

"The high cost of securing health insurance for all Americans, the top domestic priority of President Obama, has Congressional Democrats scrambling to scale back their proposals or find ways to trim tens of billions of dollars a year from existing health programs," the New York Times reports.

In remarks [transcript] delivered before signing, Obama stressed the importance of the new legislation, which was passed in response to the 8 million tobacco-related illnesses in the US and the 400,000 deaths per year arising out of tobacco use.