Sherrod Brown

The primary lesson is higher capital requirements?

We need to get global standards that are much higher.

And they are surely more fragile than ours.

This is not capitalism. You mentioned, I think, in your own remarks that when you have socializing losses while you are privatizing gains, you get a distorted market economy.

I was on the phone today listening to people call in from Ohio, taking calls. I heard so many people very afraid of the Boehner legislation and what might come out of a further compromise. Senator Reid, as the Senator said, has offered a…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:55 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, July 28, 2011, at 10 a.m…

I would just like you to continue to do the right thing on the Federal direct loan program. It matters so much.

I was disappointed that fiscal year 2011 appropriations contained severe reductions to international programs.

Eighty-nine percent of first generation students--89 percent leave college without a degree after 6 years, a terrible waste of human talent, a terrible waste of the future potentially, and a terrible waste of dollars.

That is certainly not acceptable.

She, as in Senator Murray, really put, kick them in the butt and we have not had any issues since.

It is important to understand where we have been and what we have learned.

You have no role in negotiating drug prices in that narrow window?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Ranking Member Corker. I appreciate especially being here at the request of the chairman because I'm not on this committee, and I appreciate the opportunity to share some information and ask you something.

I would think, especially on the Services in CONUS, obviously, when you are dealing with just legal assistance issues, I mean, those are pretty standard throughout.

One of the biggest challenges that many guardsmen have is the length of deployment, in that there are many soldiers in the Guard who would be happy to do backfill tours of 3 to 6 months voluntarily.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 5:45 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, July 14, 2011, at 9:30 a.m.

We hope to get an agreement to begin consideration of the Military Construction appropriations bill early tomorrow. ____________________

I am concerned about the process for follow-up consultations, what are the procedures and standards in place to contact the individuals who have been discharged that are still at risk.

There needs to be a top-to-bottom review from the minute the soldier is getting out to determine what their status is; how they are mentally and physically.

We have a crisis. They need to be there treating.

Maybe there is an opportunity for you to inquire like what are the actual boots-on-the-ground numbers.

But this seems just so egregious, these stories.

The breakdown is from the handoff to the actual treatment that follows.

When you are dealing with people's lives, you know, the response rate needs to be perfect because every lack of perfection equals a death--bottom line.