Sherrod Brown actually said...

"Don't news reports suggest that there is no harm but perhaps reason for you to ask the Justice Department for some of this, any of this information that they might think important to this country's fi..."

"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."

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

"These are, as you know, very serious accusations and in some cases more than accusations, as we found."