Sherrod Brown

It was clearly bipartisan and it was actually quite informative for me personally.

Jeffrey Helmick will make an outstanding judge on the U.S. District Court for our Northern District in Ohio, and I ask for his speedy confirmation.

It is my pleasure to introduce Jeffrey Helmick of Ohio, a brilliant and distinguished lawyer.

In addition to having a brilliant legal mind, Jeff Helmick understands the needs and challenges facing the northern district and our legal system generally.

I echo the words of the senior Senator from Texas in support of our men and women who might be home on leave, might have been sent somewhere on Active Duty, that this is the least we can do. ____________________

It is not often we have an opportunity to see--to put a face on decisions made by people in this town.

Those of us on the other side of the spectrum... raised serious doubts about China's WTO membership.

At the time it joined the WTO, China made many promises.

Last year, Senator Kaufman and I offered an amendment to Dodd-Frank that would have sent the clear message that Congress believes that too big to fail means simply too big.

Regulators, the Treasury Department, and Congress are far too lenient with a Wall Street that they view as more essential than it actually is.

We need more transparency.

I want to echo the words from my colleague Senator Menendez about the importance of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Capital has been scarce for American entrepreneurs.

The biggest challenge that they had and have are the lack of regulatory intact certainty, but more importantly, the lack of the ability to actually get capital.

It is a discussion with need to have as to how we get Americans back to work, and it starts really with capital formation.

Senator Scott P. Brown of Massachusetts

It puts at risk the companies in States like Ohio and Michigan that Senator Roberts mentioned.

Wall Street allies in Congress, and there are far too many of them, are trying to cut funding because they do not like the idea of greater oversight and transparency of these markets.

One of the lessons is not all crises, of course, not all crises are exactly the same.

That means giving CFTC the necessary funding to carry out both the great responsibilities we have given them in the Dodd-Frank Act.

If we choose to do nothing today or in the very near future, would Congress be sending a pretty strong message to the Supreme Court that we do not want to clearly articulate the rule to hold Members of Congress liable for trading on this…

The bottom line is I think the fiduciary responsibility is to the American people.

If I am in a top-secret meeting and I find that we are going to drop a weapons system and by doing that the company stock is going to go down dramatically, and I walk outside and I pick up the phone and I say, 'Hey, sell XYZ Company's…

When you even have to hear about things like this that happen apparently in Washington, there is clearly something wrong.

Being new here, until the '60 Minutes' piece came out, I had no knowledge that something like this was even allowed.