NU Online News Service, July 31, 2:25 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON–Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., the powerful chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, announced today he has prostate cancer and will have surgery during the August congressional recess.
Sen. Dodd said he expects to be back at work after a "brief recuperation" and added that the cancer was discovered at an
early stage and that his treatment and recovery would not alter his
plans to seek re-election in 2010.
Sen. Dodd is playing a key role in shepherding health care reform legislation through the Senate as acting chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee in the absence of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., who has brain cancer.
As chairman of the Senate Banking panel, he also is a key player on such critical insurance industry issues as future regulation, flood insurance, executive compensation and determining how systemically risky institutions will be regulated in the future.
He is senior senator of a state with a number of large insurance companies.
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