Sherrod Brown

We need to allow, or give the Postal Service the tools and resources they will need to move forward.

Thank you for your service the last half-decade. You have served your country well and you have been very helpful to so many of us.

This is serious business and should not be so politicized that they block nominee after nominee after nominee.

It will increase the likelihood we have another AIG or Lehman Brothers.

We need strong nominees who will not be afraid to take bold steps to prevent a new financial crisis.

What is NIH's role in sort of examining these, exploring these, finding out the environmental cause, if it is that, as I presume.

The outcry worked with FDA. The outcry barely worked with KV.

We are in a financial emergency and we need to squeeze out every last dollar.

There is a tremendous amount of waste in here that I am glad----

There needs to be an effort to reestablish trust between the American people and the Federal Government.

We had a hearing on it a couple of weeks ago, in the Medicare and----

People want to do their fair share, but they also want to know that when they do it, they are not going to be wasting their hard-earned dollars.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the fact that you have been trying to push out their home page Web page information.

I'm concerned, with the 2012 budget resolution that passed the House, the consolidation of multiple programs serving a range of populations... into a single, one-size-fits-all voucher program.

We need the administration to speak much more forcefully than they have on the importance of TAA.

I would say to you that my personal commitment is to try to keep the integrity of these programs in place.

I’d like the administration to take a stronger position on TAA.

African-American unemployment is 16 percent--official unemployment. We know it's higher than that, almost twice the white unemployment rate of 8.7 percent.

What specifically are you doing to give people more trust and more faith and more certainty that this is not going to happen again here?

There were significant management problems here.

We need this throughout the VA to be something that whistleblowers feel some confidence in doing.

That number is significantly greater than 535.

A lot longer than the 18 years that----

What have we learned? What does this review panel--what do these review panels, what did they learn from not being able--from the failure to find this, ferret this out on more than one occasion over 18 years?

So retirement basically protects that employee from--shields that employee from being accountable.