Sherrod Brown

I don't think a single call to my office on this proposal has been positive.

I thank Senator Kennedy again for his comments. Look at what happened in this country over the last decades, as we set up a system of collective bargaining for private employees. This body had no interest in telling GM and the UAW how to…

I urge people, understanding that Second Harvest is not getting the donations they used to get, they are not getting enough help from the Government, they are not getting as much from supermarkets and from businesses as they got before…

On behalf of Senators Sununu, McCaskill, Durbin, and Schumer, I am proud today to offer the reduction of excess subsidies to crop underwriters rescue amendment to the farm bill. The rescue amendment is based on a simple premise. When…

These were trips paid for by the toy industry, the industry now under scrutiny for cutting corners, cutting corners that earn big profits for industry CEOs and send toxic toys into our children's bedrooms.

This important bipartisan amendment, offered by Senators Voinovich, Lieberman, and Whitehouse, would provide $2 million in paid-for funding for the Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural Program. It is administered by the Department…

I thank Senator Stabenow, my friend from Michigan, for the comments about children's health. She is right-on about that. Look at the choice. We are going to spend $2.5 billion a week in Iraq. Yet we are unwilling per year to spend $7…

Well, we also had a chart earlier that showed that increase of 20-plus percent, up until now, in real dollars. If the percentage increase continues, and there is no reason it would not, it will grow similar to this. But we have had several…

I found overwhelming support for the minimum wage. In Ohio, 500,000 people got a raise because of what the voters in Ohio did in November, with overwhelming support of the minimum wage. Two hundred thousand children live in those 500,000…

There's Sherrod Brown of Ohio doing 55 push-ups. He lost a bet on the college football championship game with his colleague from Florida, Bill Nelson.

Mike DeWine voted for the Iraq war, and I voted against the Iraq war.

Thank you, Mr. Miller, for your terrific leadership fighting for workers. And to my hypocritical friends on the other side of the aisle, I actually plan to vote for the minimum wage. I stand in honor of the millions of American workers…

I reclaim my time. For 10 years, Democrats have tried to increase the minimum wage and Republicans have blocked it. Yet during the 10 years with no minimum wage increase, Congress, under Republican leadership, has increased its own pay six…

I ask my colleagues to join Ms. Pryce and Mr. Murphy and Chairman Deal in passing this legislation unanimously. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Tomorrow the United States Senate is going to likely pass, or at least try to pass, tax legislation to give tax cuts to 800 families in Ohio. Recently, this Congress voted or the Senate voted to cut a college tax credit that would affect…

I would like to be the next to last speaker under the rules. So whichever of you wants to go. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee).

I am confused. Did they choose to sign up, or were some forced to sign up from Medicaid?

I am confused by that. Are you saying 72 percent chose to sign up of those eligible?

The difference may have been our legislation was written by senior advocates while theirs was written by the drug companies and the HMOs. I yield 2 minutes to my friend from Maine (Mr. Allen), who has fought to make this program work way…

I rise to honor my friend Dodie Dittmer of the Communication Workers of America for her 43 years of service. She started at Ohio Bell in Dayton back in 1963. Dodie Dittmer has always been there for workers and, in the great tradition of…

This war has been absolutely incompetently run.

I see from every indication two out of three Ohioans saying this war has been badly managed by the civilians in the White House and the Pentagon, valiantly fought by soldiers and Marines, but badly managed.

History has taught us otherwise; that it does not. We have been joined by the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters) from Los Angeles who has been a real leader on all kinds of economic justice issues, especially trade issues.

I would point out that the States in white, and there are two of them, actually had manufacturing job growth. In these two States, total population is about 2 million people out of a country of 280 million, so these two States represent…

We just returned from 10 days in our district, and we found the opposition to the Central American Free Trade Agreement is even greater than before we left. People at home in our districts recognize our trade policy is not working. Just…