that is my job to make sure we elevate the industry and remind people what it can do. >> chris: doddde his first big speech this week at the nato summit, the national association of theater-owners. that's it for today have a great week. see you next "fox news sunday." captioned by closed captioning services, inc

i was reading an article yesterday, chris dodd, the new head of the motion picture association, was making reference to you about how tough you can be when you want the rating for your friend. you seem like such a nice, warm friendly guy, but i know you don't get where you are, so tell me how tough you have to be. >> you have to be smart, you have to be principled, you have to be smart enough to enact your principles. it's like the false accusation about women, women are demanding people call them -- women who are demanding, you call them bitches, but that's not it. they're just demanding. what am i aggressive about, there were 11 f-u's in the movie. in england they understood that the content of those f-words, they didn't want that to pribt the kids from seeing it, so families could go. i went and overturned that rating. does that make me a bad person so that kids could go and see the movie? that was something i was aggressive about. same thing about blue valentine, there was nothing adult about that movie, it was different than any other movie, didn't show that much, showed less than oth

you can then frank chris dodd and barney frank to should of been controlled by harry reid and nancy pelosi, and then if he loses, he can thank the best friend that the republicans ever head, chuck schumer, who said when he did know that there were newspaper people on the conference call, that he recommended to all of the democrats that they try to paint the republicans as extreme, extreme. patty murray is extreme, chuck schumer is extreme, and so on. the president also said that he did not want this bill to be about petty grievances. he said petty grievances. what planned parenthood is done is killing potential american citizens, thousands and thousands of them. host: thank you for your input. sounds like harold was watching the senate moments ago when harry reid came and spoke about the agreement as did senator mcconnell. they agree to the short-term spending measure. this is the action from just a short while ago. there's a short-term bridge that will give us time to avoid a shutdown with an agreement with both houses in the president. we will cut $70.5 billion below the president's budg

senator chris dodd of connecticut, now retired, led the battle on the floor of the united states senate to try to make sure that we had the necessary oversight and balance when it came to our financial institutions to avoid the likelihood of another recession. the banks fought back, but in the end we prevailed. and senator dodd passed the measure here in the senate, and it was passed in the house of representatives under the leadership of congressman barney frank of massachusetts. signed by the president, it really gave us a chance to move forward with oversight regulation and reform on wall street. it was signed last july by the president a o -- by the president and many of the most important elements of the dodd-frank bill will not go into effect until july 21 of this year. several of them are very important to america and important to me as an individual, because as a senator, i offered an amendment to this bill. it was a controversial amendment. and for the banks, an expensive amendment. for the wall street banks and credit card companies, the interchange fee amendment which i intro

president obama and chairman frank of the house financial services committee and former chairman chris dodd, we enacted comprehensive wall street reform last summer. now the senate is still under the control of a difference senate banking chairman, mr. johnson, but the house has switched parties and the people currently in charge in the house, mr. baucus from alabama, his subcommittee chair is from west virginia, and many others are trying to weaken many of the protections that were put in place to make sure that what happened because of wall street never happens again. the people have changed, but the deregulation is clearly under george bush. host: austin, texas, on the independent line. caller: and that a particular problem for over 35 years. it concerns student loans. student loans in the united states has more deficit than credit cards, which is why understanding. it a person gets a student loan, for $2,500, then the banks are holding at laurell go into bankruptcy -- space that are holding my loan go into bankruptcy, they report to the department of the treasury. they do not do anythin

an incredible friend, a force for safety in banking for this country when it was nod easy to do, chris doddconnecticut. [applause] years ago, vicky and ted had a number of us at the house on the cape and talking about the institute and what it could be and wop of the suggestions was that it could go to another college, and it wasn't emerson college. [laughter] and the senator said he wanted it at umass boston, and he was clear about that. he understood how important it would be for himself, for the people at umass boston. we have a great university system in massachusetts, and the man who was led it for the last several years has been a member of our board, a sit leader in massachusetts, and a dear friend of the kennedy institute, chad wilson. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much, peter. this really is a wonderful day for the university, and it's a wonderful day for our commonwealth and for the nation, for everyone who cares about public service, this is a wonderful day, and it was why the red sox were waiting to kick off their season until this could happen. we know that. [laughter

an incredible friend, a force for safety in banking for this country when it was nod easy to do, chris doddrom connecticut. [applause] years ago, vicky and ted had a number of us at the house on the cape and talking about the institute and what it could be and wop of the suggestions was that it could go to another college, and it wasn't emerson college. [laughter] and the senator said he wanted it at umass boston, and he was clear about that. he understood how important it would be for himself, for the people at umass boston. we have a great university system in massachusetts, and the man who was led it for the last several years has been a member of our board, a sit leader in massachusetts, and a dear friend of the kennedy institute, chad wilson. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much, peter. this really is a wonderful day for the university, and it's a wonderful day for our commonwealth and for the nation, for everyone who cares about public service, this is a wonderful day, and it was why the red sox were waiting to kick off their season until this could happen. we know that. [laug

strikes me this is the first time i have had a chance to celebrate here when my former colleague chris dodd is not here. the first time we celebrated together on the floor, i ended my remarks with the uconn cheer. afterward, senator dodd, then the senior senator, gave me a hard time as to whether i would make a good cheerleader and whether it was a decorous thing to do on the floor of the senate. i told him at the time it would have been worse. i could have done the uconn huskies' woof. but now i'm the senior senator, and may i conclude, madam president, by simply saying u-c-o-n-n! uconn, uconn, uconn! national champs. i know that my n needs a little work, and i will be working on that from now until next year when hopefully we secure another championship. i thank the chair, and i yield the floor to senator blumenthal. mr. blumenthal: i thank the senior senator from connecticut for that very, very eloquent tribute to our team. i am not going to try to match the cheer this year, but perhaps next, and i thank him for providing such a model of support for the university of connecticut. truly a