Swing State Project's DavidNYC has a new poll from Quinnipiac University testing incumbent Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd - the longest-serving United States Senator in Connecticut history - against former CT-02 Rep. Rob Simmons, who lost reelection to Democrat Joe Courtney in 2006, as well as two othe...

The Republican long knives are out for Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, whose favorability in the Nutmeg State has been dropping since he moved his family to Iowa as part of his quixotic presidential campaign...and Dodd's position as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee during the financial crisis, ...

Cross-posted from Congress Matters. If you've got a Daily Kos account, you've got a Congress Matters account. Log in with your existing Daily Kos user name and password. Seems some executive pay limits for TARP recipients did survive the conference after all: A provision buried deep inside the $787 ...

Both of Connecticut's U.S. senators were greeted with ominous new poll numbers on Tuesday. The new Quinnipiac University survey showed Chris Dodd, a senator's son who first won election to the upper chamber in 1980, scoring his lowest ever marks and Joe Lieberman trailing by a whopping 28 points in ...

"I am not a crook!" Senator Chris Dodd released the details of his Countrywide mortgages. In a statement released with it he said that he would refinance the loans. But, please, pay no attention to this fact: "Jackie and Chris have "decided to refinance (their) homes", which seems unremarkable, give...

….same as the old boss: I just received confirmation from a congressional aide that Senate Banking Chair Chris Dodd will not to provide increased conditions, transparency and oversight on the second $350 billion of the Wall Street bailout money (otherwise known as TARP). introduce legislation ...

Cross-posted from Congress Matters. Ha ha! Where ya been, George? Seriously, this is the worst kind of day late, dollar short mewling I've ever seen! A new Capitol Visitor Center recently opened, just in time for the transformation of the Capitol building into a tomb for the antiquated idea that the...

Collegiality taken too far becomes clubbiness, and clubbiness is just on the other side of a fine line from corruption. The Democratic Senate leadership is veering ever so close to crossing that line. Tennessee Senator Bob Corker said yesterday that a crisis like the U.S. automakers’ fight for...

Team Obama is reportedly seriously vetting Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as vice presidential candidates.  It’s hard to imagine that he’d go with Dodd, who I find likeable and serious, given that he’s running on a “youth” and “chan...

Not that it was unexpected but Bad Boy/Evil Troll Karl Rove has just refused to honor a Congressional subpoena. Well, why shouldn't he? Dozens of other Bush minions have ignored their subpoenas and nothing ever happened to them. The Democrats did NOTHING and they'll do NOTHING again. Former White Ho...