Sherrod Brown

We need to enact aggressive policies that ease the credit conditions facing small businesses and get our economy back on track.

I believe, similarly to you, Madam Chairman, that if we don't do it, they will--if we don't draw the line in the sand, it will not get done.

I would love to know what has been done, what the plan is to continue with that effort. Have we realized any savings?

I find, being here over 100 days now, that the biggest problem we have is people just need to make decisions and stick to them.

Our SECTORS Act, our legislation is basically founded on, as Senator Enzi suggested, that it is from the bottom up.

I applaud the Chairman for holding two hearings on this proposal this week.

I sent a letter to Treasury letting them know of my concern about the TARP program being used to fund bank consolidation.

Americans are disgusted that Wall Street can make or break our economy. So am I.

I'm concerned about how we treat the detainees and where we send them.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to introduce Ted Tozer, who is the nominee for President of the Government National Mortgage Association.

In searching for that needle, like a needle in a haystack, we need to take some hay off the stack and ensure that the screeners be logical in their approach.

The safety and security of anyone traveling in the United States is one of my top priorities.

I empathize. I know that these demands are huge on PBGC, but there was an arrogance, in the prior administration of PBGC, that--and you don't strike me as an arrogant man--but that simply can't hold.

Because you didn't have all the facts, oftentimes.

It's a commitment made to millions and millions of people that have been undercut.

I empathize with that position and understand why it happens.

I so appreciate Chairman Harkin's comments about the importance of defined pension benefits.

I think it is helpful when I am talking to sort of regular folks that we think about this in the same way that we do putting a child through college.

This hearing of the Economic Policy Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee will come to order.

I hear a lot about deficit, but we don't talk all that much about the deficit we have in infrastructure that we are passing on to our children.

We must encourage and promote the value of hiring vets within the private sector and by the government.

YSU is demonstrating its commitment to a cause greater than itself.

This hearing could not have come at a more important time as our country works to recover from last year's economic meltdown.

I am proud, as Senator Dodd is, to be an original cosponsor of the FAIR Overdraft Coverage Act.

Everyone is talking about economic recovery, but we're here today because any recovery that is taking place is only happening in the financial pages--not the real world.