Sherrod Brown actually said...

"In a sense, even poorly funded State and public defined benefit plans are better funded than Social Security."

"With $530 billion taxpayer dollars at stake, the government needs strong controls to provide reasonable assurance that these contract funds will not be lost to waste, fraud, and abuse."

"The fact that we are hiring 500 new auditors just smacks of me saying, 'Wow, something is broken somewhere.'"

"Unfortunately, this may be my last meeting as Ranking Member as you are aware of."