And he’s “pretty confident” about reconciliation (via the New Haven Register):

U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., Monday, said he sensed “a mood change” in the country that it is better to pass health care reforms now, rather than lose them for many years to come.
Dodd, who was in the city promoting his Livable Communities Act, reflected a little on the health care battle and what he will do when he leaves office this year.
The 30-year senator said the mood shift wasn’t “seismic. I just get a feeling that people are beginning to realize that if we don’t get something done on pre-existing conditions, on cost, that this may be lost for another generation.”
Dodd, who led the battle in the Senate for almost a year before it passed that body in December, said a family could be paying $2,000 a month for health care premiums without reforms.
He said every state is projected to have a 10 percent jump in the uninsured in the next seven years and 30 states would have a 30 percent increase if all collapses now.
Dodd said he was feeling a little more optimistic than two or three weeks ago when Scott Brown was elected to the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts and the Democrats lost their 60-vote margin. He said taking a hiatus before going back to the issue was helpful. Now Dodd said he is feeling “pretty confident” that the Senate has the 50 or 51 votes needed to adopt a final bill through reconciliation, which requires a simple majority.