Lobbyists Pushing Dodd to HELP

• By Anna Palmer
• Roll Call Staff
• Sept. 8, 2009, Midnight

Financial services lobbyists are quietly pushing for Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) to give up his chairmanship of the Banking Committee and take up the gavel of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, where he is next in line following the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.).