Sherrod Brown

Is he aware that 155,000 new workers have been certified, that under the new TAA program since May 2009, 155,000 Americans have been assisted under TAA?

I want to make some brief comments about something very important for workers and businesses and international trade. In December, just before the 111th Congress adjourned, it extended two critical trade programs which Senator Casey and I…

In a sense, even poorly funded State and public defined benefit plans are better funded than Social Security.

With $530 billion taxpayer dollars at stake, the government needs strong controls to provide reasonable assurance that these contract funds will not be lost to waste, fraud, and abuse.

The fact that we are hiring 500 new auditors just smacks of me saying, 'Wow, something is broken somewhere.'

Unfortunately, this may be my last meeting as Ranking Member as you are aware of.

While contract auditing can be an important control mechanism, in our current fiscal environment the reality is we cannot audit everything nor should we.

This agreement among Senator Casey, Senator Kyl, Senator McCain, and me will make a difference in restoring TAA, trade adjustment, and the health care tax credit, in addition to the Andean trade references and some other things that will…

These judges have made glowing reports on Judge Benita Pearson, who has been a magistrate, a CPA, practiced privately, worked for the U.S. Attorney's Office. She will be the first African-American woman to sit on the Federal bench in Ohio…

I know Senator Casey and I have fought for American manufacturing for pretty much our whole careers. I think our trade policy has done more--and the way we do globalization has done as much damage to our country as almost anything in terms…

In his almost 50 years of public service, he always has been his own man... He likes to say, reflecting on our State's tremendous potential, "the rust is off the belt," as people used to refer to Cleveland as the rust belt but now see it…

That $750 billion is $75 billion a year for 10 years for millionaires and billionaires versus $13 billion once for senior citizens. In essence, that $750 billion--without getting too much into the weeds on numbers--in essence, we are…

I'm very unhappy about it. ... It, in essence, takes $700 billion -- borrows $700 billion from China, charges it, and puts it on our children and grandchildren's credit cards, and gives it to the wealthiest 2 percent of taxpayers.

I'm very unhappy about it. In essence, it takes $700 billion -- borrows $700 billion from China, charges it and puts it on our children and grandchildren's credit cards and gives it to the wealthiest two percent of taxpayers.

I also agree with Senator McCain that we should have asked, 'do you favor repeal of DADT,' as one of the questions.

Having been there, I am greatly concerned as well, and I am concerned that a lot of the folks that are supposed to be doing the training are not fulfilling their obligations with our coalition forces, too.

I have great concern about our soldiers, the men and women that are fighting, and also the taxpayers who are providing that $56 billion.

I agree with him that we must be better buyers and buy from better people.

I mirror Senator McCaskill's kind words about your service.

The taxpayers are being hurt and the soldiers that are trying to defend us and do their jobs are being provided with--they have a disadvantage because some of our own monies are being potentially used to hurt or kill them, and I find that…

I am greatly concerned, as I know the Chairwoman is, on the allegation that there is money going to the insurgents, the Taliban in particular.

To what extent are we allowing nonprofits, NGO's, Fortune 500 companies, and corporate America into the installations to help these Wounded Warriors find a job while they are getting treated?

I am a little uneasy with the declaration made by the DOD that plans to conduct a global rollout of this program by the end of next fiscal year is something that they are focused on actually doing.

It seems like several years now that the DOD and the Department of Veterans Affairs are kind of playing a blame game when it comes to the DES pilot program.

Everyone in this room, certainly, regardless of party, wants this program to succeed.