At the end of the blogger outreach on Saturday, September 26th, '09, I talked to Senator Dodd on the Kucinich Amendment Protecting States' Rights to move forward on Single Payer. Essentially, Dodd refers to Senator Bernie Sanders' efforts and Sanders legislation to deal with Erisa laws and allow Single Payer in States that want to start an SP system. Dodd makes no commitment to support it, but he will look at it. Sanders had previously introduced a partial fix to the system and it was rejected in the Senate HELP committee BUT if we can get him to reintroduce it, or even a stronger fix? One possibly more sympathetic and newly minted Chairperson may have the will to twist a few arms:

So sayeth Senator Sanders and I think most of you will agree:

Bernie cosponsored
Russ Feingold’s bill to rescind the immunity given to
telecommunications firms that took part in a Bush-era spying program.
"We have got to do everything we can to protect the American people
from terrorist attacks, but we can do that and uphold the rule of law,"
Bernie said. To read more, click here.

U.S.  Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jon Tester (D-MT), Tom Udall (D-NM), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) have combined efforts to introduce the legislation.

h/t Heather at Crooks and Liars' Video Cafe.