Sherrod Brown

The administration is right now examining a reorganization of export-related agencies.

Since then, in 2009, a NASA satellite was lost, as you know. And, just a month ago, another NASA satellite was lost.

If we're going to cut taxes and continue to cut taxes on the wealthiest people in this country, and continue to underfund the important parts of Government, we're going to lose that scientific edge.

Can we work together with local law enforcement to perhaps create that in Ohio so that we can join much of the rest of the country in that kind of assistance?

On meth labs, DOJ nationally has stopped State funding for meth lab cleanups.

I actually think this is more a State and local responsibility. It is best a State and local program versus a Federal responsibility.

FSS is a program with relatively little expense that has made a huge difference.

I chose this subcommittee, on the Appropriations Committee, for a couple of reasons.

This price increase marks a dramatic setback for public health, to insurance carriers, to businesses, to taxpayers

It looks a lot like blackmail to me

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.

A low birth weight baby in the first year of life costs on the average $51,000, putting aside the human cost to the child, to the baby, the family, and everyone else.

I appreciate Senator Pryor's concern about children's GME. I also am concerned.

None of that was scored as we know, the work that Senator Mikulski did and Senator Harkin and others.

That kind of preventive care, that kind of patient safety... will clearly help us restrain healthcare costs.

I hope that you will revisit this issue as it comes forward.

I appreciate just about everything you do.

I think that is going to bring a lot of cost savings that I think opponents to the healthcare bill have not recognized.

When I got down here, there was an $11.95 trillion national debt. It is over $14 trillion in a year.

I have to respectfully disagree with your analysis of the budget and agree with Senator Collins.

S. 238, the Fishery Impact Statement Honesty Act introduced by Senator Scott Brown and co-sponsored by Senators Snowe and Collins brings focus to another very important issue.

Because a basic purpose of Amendment 16 was to make the enormous and complex transition from the DAS effort-based management system to the sector 'catch share' system, there was a great deal of uncertainty about what the social and…

We've got to be smart strategically about what are the levers that can best be employed to help create indigenous, organized centers of power and influence that are not going to be prey to ideology and radicalism.

Are there sort of ongoing efforts by State and by Labor to look at potential labor-law violations with whether it's a bilateral or multilateral trading partner through free trade agreements?

The Government of Guatemala has not taken steps to remedy its failures to enforce labor laws.