Sherrod Brown

How many speakers does the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton) have remaining and, Mr. Speaker, who has the right to close? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Flake). The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton) has the right to close.

Could the Chair inform both sides how much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Flake). The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) has 13 minutes. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton) has 11 minutes.

As the gentleman was talking, I am thinking about what he said a few nights ago. There is no protection for the environment, for workers, but there is very good protection in this bill for a group that is very powerful in this body and…

Exactly right. I thank the gentleman. As I said, Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Carnahan) has joined us. We are also joined by the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky), who has worked on trade agreements for years; and…

In recent weeks half a dozen Ohio newspapers have used the following terms to describe recent ethics problems proliferating through the United States Congress: acts of hypocrisy; national moral lapse; disgrace; dirty moves; ethically…

Thank the gentlewoman from Illinois. Thank our new freshman colleague, the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Melancon), thank the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone), and also the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Solis) and the gentlewoman…

Reclaiming my time, they said do not do this anymore; we will quit doing it. Nobody paid a fine. Nobody was penalized. Nobody lost a job. That is just amazing. It is like you break the law and do something untoward and just do not do it…

Twelve years ago, Mr. Speaker, I stood on this floor in opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement. In those days, we heard promises from supporters of NAFTA, the trade agreement that included Mexico, Canada and the United…

I only said that the President and Vice President sat down with the drug and insurance industry and wrote this bill, and I never said the President did anything illegal. I questioned that it was the right thing to do. Am I not allowed to…

I really just want to make sure I understand. So if the President wrote a bill with the drug and insurance industry, then by my saying that the drug and insurance industry gave money to the President's campaign, that is improper to say?

I was talking about the leadership of this Congress being corrupt by passing a Medicare bill the way they did.

Reclaiming my time, they would prefer that this senior not announce that they are getting the $4,000 from the drug companies when they say that, I would understand.

I guess, Mr. Speaker, that I do not know if the President told the truth, but people who report to the President that should have been informing the President certainly did not tell the truth, because they said the bill would cost $400…

I was only talking about his actions. It is nothing personal. I just thought that tens of millions of dollars in contributions which lead to legislation which means bigger profits for the insurance and drug companies was shameful. I did…

Republican leadership in the Senate confirmed last week they have no intention of acting on prescription drug importation legislation. Senate leader Frist said there just is not time to take it up.

I have been here 12 years and heard these same arguments. I look at my State, and we have lost one out of six manufacturing jobs, 190 jobs every day during the Bush administration, and I do not see how it adds up.

It is the duty of us, as we talk about the middle class ways, and it is our duty to offer what we would do positively with what we have talked about in the past with Crane-Rangel and looking at these trade agreements again and extending…

That is a mistake that neither the Pentagon or the President has acknowledged, even though we know dozens if not more men and women were killed because they did not have body armor, because the Humvees were not up-armored with the kind of…

They want Medicare they can depend on, they want decent public education, they want affordable prescription drugs, they want a fair tax system that does not give tax breaks to the wealthy and leave them wanting for pennies, if that; they…

Reclaiming my time, President Bush's Secretary of Commerce recently said, ``This is the best economy of my lifetime.'' Again, I wonder, I know that President Bush and his top advisers have personal wealth and do not get out much, but it is…

Reclaiming my time, so President Bush and the Secretary of the VA have decided the VA should offer services to American veterans, but they are not allowed to tell anybody that they are offering these services?

The lawsuit was basically to force the VA to do what it is charged by this Congress to do, and he will explain. But it was not just a question of policy decisions that the Congress and the President have made to cut benefits, to fail to…

I want to continue the theme that the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone) mentioned, the gentleman from Washington (Mr. McDermott), others, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) earlier this week, Are you better off today than…

I would add that there are 50,000 Ohioans alone who have seen their unemployment benefits expire in the last 6 months, 1 million Americans. These are people looking for a job, playing by the rules, but cannot find a job. The President said…

So to make sure I understand this, the FDA, the same FDA that has begun to throw overboard science, the same FDA that is clamping down on Americans going to Canada for less expensive drugs, the same FDA that approves prescription drugs, if…