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Currently: Dodd announces retirement, “I will not be a candidate for re-election this November… my deepest gratitude to the people of Connecticut for the remarkable privilege of being elected eight times over the past four decades to our national assembly.”
Bio: Dodd was elected to the Senate in the 1980 election and was subsequently reelected in the 1986, 1992, 1998, and 2004 elections. He is the first Senator from Connecticut to serve five consecutive terms. From 1995 to 1997, he served as General Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. As General Chairman, Dodd was the DNC’s spokesman. Donald Fowler served as National Chairman, running the party’s day to day operations. Dodd has also involved himself in children’s and family issues, founding the first Senate Children’s Caucus[10] and authoring the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Grade: F-
We still need you Chris! The GOP is going to make the whole congress useless.
Me and many others here in Connecticut are grateful for your many years of service and wish you all the best.
Yeah Dodd, our state and country still need you!
Chris Dodd did not Sponsor or Champion any Good Legislation in 30 Years!
other than the Family & medical leave Act!
He represented the insurance company monopoly so they could extract excessive premiums like another tax from us.
Dodd Represented the Pharma compaines so they could charge us triple the cost, locking out Canadian & European suppliers. (The textile industry & Auto industry wish they could get such a protectionist deal!)
He prevented innovations in Energy from coming to market for 30 years, keeping us addicted to foreign oil. Then he help sink us into the Wars in the mid-east, that we will pay for for 75 years.
Dodd was a Bushicrat
Good Riddance!
I wish my fellow CT voters would critique the WORK/Legialation of our Representatives instead of marvel at them like celebrities
I hope our next CT Senator will undo some of the backward policy’s of the past.
I totally agree David P., Dodd like the rest of them serves for themselves, their friends and families. After he has ‘stolen’ enough money ( special mortgage interest rate etc) he is stepping down to keep a low profile> I am sure if we were to dig deeper we would open a ‘can of worms’. Yeah and I am sick of people ‘idolizing’ these thieving politicians!