Sherrod Brown

These new State voting laws are a result of an organized effort to limit voting rights.

We are seeing brazen attempts around the country to undermine it.

I understand the burdens of the costs and resources in ensuring the fundamental right to vote is exercised.

I appreciate the work that they do.

I am kind of disgusted at the way things are done here, the lack of bipartisanship and camaraderie.

I do not think anybody has made the case that he is not, and most of us have made the case that he is.

He targeted financial institutions, including Fannie Mae, that used accounting fraud to undermine investments

It is my honor to introduce one of the finest public servants I have ever met, Richard Cordray.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is an essential part of that, recognized by a majority of both sides of the aisle

What has happened in this economy is that we had not a free market, which I support, but a free-for-all market

I hope my colleagues will set aside their fears, their anger, their dislike of this consumer agency and do their job.

Nobody questions his qualifications as his background, his qualifications, and his performance in office of the various jobs he had, no one questions that.

This was a man-made catastrophe that could have been avoided if we had had, as Senator Reed said, a better regulatory system.

I am confident that he will make the CFPB a strong defender for consumers.

We should enforce the trade rules that we have.

The work of the Eximbank that both of you, Mr. Walther and Ms. Loui, continue is essential for our--particularly in light of this Congress's work, not always good work, on trade agreements which we see continuing a larger and larger and…

Could you just elaborate on that, as to how that will compliment your existing tools? And also, what role does politics, do politicians have in interfering with you doing your job?

I know in Massachusetts when we were having some financial difficulty, a lot of the registries and motor vehicles were actually closed...

It is funny. Half a billion dollars for leased office space, it just blows my mind how we get in these situations.

People wonder where the money is going. Well, it is very clear where it is going.

I am hopeful that the President and both houses are listening to what we are doing, because we have given them great, great things to just go and fix.

We are just wasting money all over the place, and in the middle of a financial emergency, I find that very, very disturbing.

So if you have such a strong leasing process, I do not understand how we get into these messes with the SEC and others.

I am filing and have filed a bill that basically mirrors the President's idea on how to address these issues.

I would vote for that.