Sherrod Brown

That is why I introduced with Senator Murray and Senator Snowe the Sectors Act to provide grants to industry or sector partnerships.

The second thing I hear repeatedly in almost every roundtable... is that employers... cannot find the right employees.

I appreciate very much this hearing.

This job is harder perhaps than when you first thought about it.

One is that infrastructure is a significant problem, water, sewer, highways, bridges, broadband, and infrastructure in terms of education too.

Much more needs to be done.

I appreciate the work that Senator Murray has done in the Women Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2009.

I agree with the President that we must reform our Nation's financial regulatory system.

These projects will spur development and help create the good-paying jobs in the high-tech and clean energy sector that will utilize the ability of Ohio's skilled manufacturing workers.

I've been encouraged by the Administration's commitment to promoting economic development and affordable housing options that create greener, more sustainable communities.

Senator Dodd and Senator Casey, whom Chris mentioned earlier, introduced legislation this week, the Pediatric Workforce Investment Act, to create a loan repayment program for licensed physicians who decide to go into a pediatric…

There's a program in Mansfield, OH, where they had particularly high low-birth weight baby rates.

The problem we have, we have this arcane scoring system in this Congress where we don't--in some sense, as we pay for healthcare reform, we don't get the score, we don't get the credit, if you will, when we do prevention healthcare and…

Your comments and questions and answers you elicited were particularly helpful.

God knows when you represent a State like I do, you see what kind of hits communities take and you see what kind of hits workers take.

It angers me when I hear these restructuring proposals for Chrysler and GM portrayed as giveaways to the United Auto Workers.

Today, many of the same critics calling for specific concessions from workers and from bond holders are now saying the government-backed plans unfairly advantage one stakeholder over another.

I have looked at the full picture for 10 years, Mr. Secretary, and I have not seen the progress.

So are you raising--if it was a firestorm in this country when we give billions to banks and they pay huge bonuses, you have not seen anything yet for what is going to happen if we put billions into auto companies and they shut down plants…

We are working on something called the SECTORS Act to bring together local--to have local people to make it sort of homegrown organically coming from them.

We would like to see more active leadership in the Senate.

How do we sell that better to people?

Today, there are manufacturers in Ohio, in every State in the country, trying to figure out how to remain viable.

Few communities in the country have the proud history of entrepreneurship that Dayton, Ohio, has.

I hear universally that even in a State with higher-than-national-average unemployment, people cannot find--in all kinds of businesses and all kinds of organizations, they cannot find a skilled workforce.