<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Christopher Dodd: News &amp; Videos about Christopher Dodd - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Christopher_Dodd</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Christopher Dodd from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:09:33 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Christopher Dodd: News &amp; Videos about Christopher Dodd - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/POLITICS/07/31/dodd.cancer/tztop.dodd.gi.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Christopher_Dodd</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Christopher Dodd from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Dodd says he has prostate cancer</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/31/dodd.cancer/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/31/dodd.cancer/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. Christopher Dodd announced Friday that he has an early form of prostate cancer, but he said the prognosis is good and he is going to be fine.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senate committee debates health care reform</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/17/senate.health/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/17/senate.health/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Congress launched a formal debate on reforming the ailing U.S. health care system Wednesday with a Senate committee considering a comprehensive bill backed by Democrats and the Obama administration.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senate Dems propose comprehensive health reform bill</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/09/health.care.debate/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/09/health.care.debate/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The national debate on health care entered a new arena Tuesday, with Senate Democrats proposing a comprehensive bill that will launch a heated congressional battle to determine if America adopts universal coverage.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Help with credit-card debt</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/16/pf/saving/credit_card_willis/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/16/pf/saving/credit_card_willis/index.htm</guid><description>The average American family carries $8,000 to $10,000 in credit-card debt. 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"I went through 28 years of sitting next to people who either had the constitution of mules or great longevity," Dodd told Fortune late one afternoon recently in his arch-windowed office on Capitol Hill.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Is the American dream dead?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/24/cafferty.economy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/24/cafferty.economy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>There is a chill wind blowing across this land of ours.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Connecticut attorney general says AIG understated bonuses</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/21/aig.bonuses/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/21/aig.bonuses/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>AIG understated the amount of money it paid out to top executives after receiving federal bailout money, the attorney general of Connecticut says -- but AIG denies the accusations.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>AIG dispute dogging Dodd may bite at election time</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/21/aig.dodd/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/21/aig.dodd/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Fallout from anger over AIG's bonuses is following Sen. Chris Dodd from Washington back home to Connecticut.</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Connecticut, 19 other states launch AIG investigations</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/20/aig.states/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/20/aig.states/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Twenty state attorneys general announced investigations Friday into the $165 million bonuses paid by insurance giant AIG last week, with Connecticut's top lawyer issuing subpoenas to CEO Edward Liddy and 11 other executives.</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dodd defends actions as an AIG exec returns $6 million bonus</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/20/dodd.bonuses/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/20/dodd.bonuses/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A defiant Sen. Chris Dodd defended his actions on bonuses for AIG executives Friday as news surfaced that a senior company executive was returning his $6 million bonus.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Geithner: I should have known about bonus problems sooner</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/19/aig.bonuses.congress/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/19/aig.bonuses.congress/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner confirmed Thursday that the department did talk to Sen. 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Chris Dodd on Tuesday endorsed Sen. 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and Treasury Secretary Paulson on the problems in the financial markets.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bond buying frenzy takes a breather</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/21/markets/bondcenter/bonds/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/21/markets/bondcenter/bonds/index.htm</guid><description>Investors again sought the safety of the government bond market Tuesday but reversed their purchases of the shortest-dated, safest securities in a sign that investors are a bit less nervous about the freeze-up in the credit markets.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wall Street finds stability</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/21/markets/markets_0130/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/21/markets/markets_0130/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks stabilized Tuesday afternoon, as investors took comfort in falling oil prices and a meeting among Federal Reserve 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meltdown</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/09/real_estate/pols_play_subprime_blame_game/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/09/real_estate/pols_play_subprime_blame_game/index.htm</guid><description>In the wake of the subprime mess, Democratic presidential candidates are grabbing hold of the issue and offering their own solutions. 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Christopher Dodd said Monday that federal regulators have been "asleep at the switch" and must start exercising their authority to stop the hemorrhaging of the subprime mortgage market.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush allies scramble to stop Iraq policy defections</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/01/us.iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/01/us.iraq/index.html</guid><description>A day after Senate Democrats and a leading Republican reached agreement on a resolution "disagreeing" with the president's new Iraq strategy, Bush allies scrambled Thursday to prevent more Republican defections.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dodd to Bush: Don't appoint Bolton</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/31/bolton.appointment/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/31/bolton.appointment/index.html</guid><description>Sen. Christopher Dodd urged President Bush on Sunday to reconsider appointing John Bolton as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations without Senate confirmation.</description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Still brutish Senate</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/30/brutish.senate/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/30/brutish.senate/index.html</guid><description>The lavishly acclaimed new era of good feelings in the Senate lasted less than four days.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2005 14:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Dodd fights Bolton</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/14/bolton/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/14/bolton/index.html</guid><description>Why did Monday's Democratic assault on John Bolton at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have so little to do with how he would perform as U.S. ambassador at the United Nations and so much about Cuban biological warfare?</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>In the Corporate Jungle, Size Matters</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/07/09/306497/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/07/09/306497/index.htm</guid><description>The 800-pound gorilla has long been a metaphor for corporate power. 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