27 Chris Dodd
Chairman U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - United States Senate

Dodd is credited with inserting the last-minute pay limit into the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The pay restrictions included prohibition of bonuses in excess of one-third of total salary for any company receiving any money from the plan and was retroactive to companies that received funds under Troubled Assets Relief Program. Fortune magazine however, criticised the provision as likely to "drive the craftiest financial minds away from the most troubled institutions".