1. Remembering Dodd in headlines

    By Bill Allison Jan 6, 2010 7:23 p.m.

    Considering the year Sen. Chris Dodd had in 2009, it's perhaps not all that surprising he's stepping down from the Senate. Some headlines--most from Connecticut news organizations--quickly culled from Lexis-Nexis, remind one of the importance of the press in covering Congress, and that informed voters are really the only ethics committee that Congress needs:

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  2. Follow the (Airport) Money

    By Bill Allison Oct 7, 2009 6:30 p.m.

    Over the past five years, the Federal Aviation Administration has handed out nearly $18 billion in grants for almost 19,000 airport projects. In theory, these projects -- funded through the FAA's Airport Improvement Program -- are supposed to enhance safety or protect the environment. In fact, according to a Subsidyscope analysis of FAA data (neatly assembled into a searchable database by Sunlight's Kaitlin Lee), a fair amount of money has gone toward the building of parking lots and other questionable things.

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  3. Congress' family business, Chris Dodd edition

    By Bill Allison May 4, 2009 4:02 p.m. 1 comment

    Edmund H. Mahony and Jon Lender of the the Hartford Courant report on Sen. Christopher Dodd's wife:

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  4. Hedge fund manager hosts Dodd fundraiser

    By Bill Allison Apr 20, 2009 7:01 p.m.

    Andrew Miga of the Associated Press reports on Sen. Chris Dodd's fundraising efforts for his reelection bid, and his tendency to raise it from interests with business before his committee:

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  5. Bloomberg: Dodd faces campaign cash shortage

    By Bill Allison Apr 1, 2009 6:20 p.m.

    Kristin Jensen and Jonathan D. Salant report that Sen. Christopher Dodd is facing a cash crunch as he gears up for his reelection bid:

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  6. Dodd's family business?

    By Bill Allison Mar 24, 2009 2:58 p.m.

    Kevin Rennie notes another connection of Sen. Christopher Dodd to the financial industry, at one remove from AIG:

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  7. Dodd controversies continue to swirl

    By Bill Allison Mar 23, 2009 12:35 p.m.

    Sen. Christopher Dodd is getting criticism from out-of-state ">papers (but note the all the Connecticut residents quoted) over the AIG bonus bungle, but the Hartford Courant ran what might be the most significant story (hat tip: Instapundit, who has a lot more on Dodd):

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  8. Dodd did it update

    By Bill Allison Mar 20, 2009 8:53 p.m. 1 comment

    Apparently, Geithner did it too. (Previous Dodd did it post here.) As this episode illustrates, there ought to be a better way of tracking whose fingerprints--those of members of Congress, administration officials, lobbyists--are on which parts of what bills.

  9. Dodd did it

    By Bill Allison Mar 19, 2009 3:11 a.m. 1 comment

    Sen. Christopher Dodd tells CNN that he was responsible for the bailouts for bonuses provision in the stimulus bill that allowed AIG executives to bring home $165 million...after telling CNN the day before that, "When I wrote the language there was no such language like that."

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  10. Senate channels "Not Me"

    By Bill Allison Mar 18, 2009 5:05 p.m. 5 comments

    Maybe we should make members pass a quiz on the contents of bills before they're allowed to vote. Case in point: the bonus exemption in the Stimulus Bill that AIG executives took advantage of. Where it came from and how it got into the bill is a mystery:

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  11. Sleuthing the Stimulus' bonus provision

    By Bill Allison Mar 18, 2009 3:20 a.m.

    So maybe Dodd's not to blame for the AIG bonus furor. Jane Hamsher uses OpenCongress.org to compare versions of the bill -- Donnie Shaw explains how here. Hamsher concludes:

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  12. Don't mean...

    By Bill Allison Mar 17, 2009 8:13 p.m. 1 comment

    to keep picking on Dodd, but he does seem to be in the center of quite a lot of things lately:

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  13. Dodd's tbd fundraising reception

    By Bill Allison Mar 17, 2009 6:31 p.m. 1 comment

    Facing what looks like a tougher-than-expected reelection effort, Sen. Christopher Dodd has a fundraiser scheduled for tomorrow evening, March 18, at a location "TBD." (click the link to see the invite) Dodd is asking "hosts" to pony up $10,000 (PACs will be the hosts, and they'll be asked to give $5,000 for the primary and $5,000 for the general election, maxing out in March for an election twenty months away. To be a co-host, a PAC can contribute $5,000, while individuals can get in the door (which door?) for a mere $1,000.

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  14. A few questions for Sen. Dodd

    By Bill Allison Mar 16, 2009 2:49 p.m. 11 comments

    This weekend, the august Sunday Times reported on Sen. Christopher Dodd's Irish "cottage":

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