Sherrod Brown: “Just to be clear, we did offer just an hour, maybe 2 hours ago--the ranking member and I have spoken for maybe 20…”

“Just to be clear, we did offer just an hour, maybe 2 hours ago--the ranking member and I have spoken for maybe 20 minutes, more or less. Just to be clear, we offered in that unanimous consent request that we vote on both Chair Powell and Dr. Jefferson and simply delay the vote on Dr. Cook because several Members who wanted to vote for her were not here. Instead, the ranking member decided he wanted to just, one more time, try to embarrass Dr. Cook. It is not really going to work because we are going to confirm her. But just to be clear, my motion, only 2 hours ago, was let's move forward on those two. That was rejected by Senator Toomey. I yield the floor. ____________________”