Sherrod Brown actually said...

"This hearing is timely as Federal agencies have made important changes recently that benefit the smallest depository institutions."

"I appreciate that you have invited both Federal and State regulators to continue the conversation that we had last fall about regulatory relief for small banks and for credit unions."

"So this is a proposal that fundamentally shuts down tax havens, as we have discussed before, and prevents a global race to the bottom."

"We do not think that the numbers that we have picked have kind of an absolute truth to them."