Honorable Christopher Dodd
United States Senator, Connecticut, Democrat
Senator Dodd was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1974 to 1980. He chairs the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and sits on the following committees: Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Foreign Relations; and Rules and Administration. The following is from the January 24, 2008, Senate floor debate on S. 2248, the FISA Amendments Act. I spoke at some length last evening and back in December on the issue of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act amendments and what I consider to be the most egregious provision in the…
