Sherrod Brown

The most egregious institutions found an agency that was too easy on them.

Veterans are not just frustrated but there's the difficulty of survival for some number of veterans that are in this process, who have to wait and wait and wait.

Quality decisions will ultimately drive timeliness and accuracy.

That's little consolation to someone going through the process, but I understand that.

We believe if you change the work credit system--I do not care where the location of the regional office is--work credit system changes to require accountability, both up and down for good work, take it away for work that is not as good…

VA has never done anything like that. We have asked questions of them and tried to get answers on this, and they really do not seem to know the answer.

Is there a way of doing that so that those cases which have a great deal more certainty, so that the likelihood of error will be very, very small?

Unfortunately, due to long delays in claims processing at the VA, it can take veterans years to get their appeals before the Court.

I am pleased to offer my strong support for the nomination of my fellow Ohioan, Daniel Elliott III, to serve as Chairman of the Surface Transportation Board.

We not be outsmarted by Wall Street and that we in the Senate not be outsmarted by Wall Street.

When I hear 'if they show progress,' that suggests patience, and there is--and it always suggests to me when I think about China and patience, I think of when Chou En-Lai was asked when he was--I think you will know this story.

You would be satisfied, you would consider it a victory for U.S. manufacturing, the U.S. economy, the U.S. Government, all of us, if China did 5 percent a year for the next 3 or 4 years?

Nor has the current account deficit?

Is there a danger if all of a sudden, if we start--if we start talking about extending that tax credit to people other than just first-time homebuyers, that that in some sense stops home purchases or slows home purchases until we actually…

Is there anything--or give me an assessment or any ideas about what we do to stimulate that part of the economy especially so that people--because, obviously, if there is more demand for auto production and appliances and all that comes…

We need to strongly consider the interests of energy-intensive, import-sensitive manufacturers in this through border adjustment and allowances and get the right solution.

Should the Government adjust the way that it talks about unemployment?

Congress and the Administration working together need, in my opinion, to immediately enact such a policy, a formal one that puts American workers first.

Elizabeth Warren came to see me the other day--I think you all know her--and she is a brilliant woman who has pretty much--I heard her sort of predict what housing was going to do to us 2 years ago.

Without a national industrial and manufacturing policy, we cannot fix this economy.

The absence of a policy of manufacturing and industrial policy allowed us yesterday to let CIT fail as a financial institution it would appear today.

You seem, Dr. Zandi, a good bit more polite toward the Chinese than they are toward us, but that is certainly your right.

The Congress, as you know, passed the Cash for Clunkers, which I was actually speaking today with the CEO of General Motors before I came over here about this hearing.

I think that has little to do with any trade policy as much as it does less demand from American consumers, correct?

Well, I guess I will ask it another way.