Sherrod Brown

When it could have been so simple. When it could have simply been one discount card where the government negotiated price, using 40 million beneficiaries as the negotiating pool, could have gotten one much lower price. Instead of that…

It is hard to think when this bill was written by my friends on the other side of the aisle, if my colleagues remember, during the debate on that, they started the debate at midnight. The vote was cast at 3 in the morning, not finished…

It is just incredible that the Congress has passed something to put more confusion in seniors' lives, to make the choices more difficult, more complicated. One of 50 cards that gives a small discount instead of using the buying power of 40…

It is all because President Bush has received literally millions of dollars in campaign contributions from the drug industry, from the insurance industry, and from Mr. Halbert, the CEO of AdvancePCS and his company and other companies that…

Reclaiming my time, I choose a card and I get a decent discount, even though the price goes up 20 or 30 percent per year. So you are the card maker, you can both cut the discount and you can take my drug off the discount card list totally?

However, the real story about the discount cards is found in the details. The discount drug cards will further complicate an already confusing process for America's seniors. Instead of implementing a prescription drug benefit under one…

President Bush was in my home State of Ohio in Cleveland near my district a week or so ago trying to justify his economic policy. Ohio has lost 300,000 jobs since President Bush took office. That is 2,000 jobs a week, 260 jobs every day…

I think it is intriguing what the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Allen) is saying about the whole Medicare structure and how my friends on the other side of the aisle and President Bush, in large part at the behest of the insurance industry…

The $87 billion, first of all, I voted to equip the troops in Iraq in the first vote. When the Bush administration failed with enough money in that budget to provide safe drinking water, to provide body armor, when the administration…

I do not understand what that means. I appreciate the Speaker's comments. So if the Vice President said something and did another, I may say that; but if he said something and did another, I cannot say that he lied about it?

The point is that the Bush administration, the Bush's chief economic adviser, Gregory Mankiw, with the President's signature on this economic policy, does not see anything wrong with the direction they want to take this country's…

You know what else? They are concerned about what happens in the election. The President and Karl Rove, the political strategist in the White House understand this bill has not gotten a very good public reception; and the reason it has not…

Last week President Bush stood in this well and told us that he signed a Medicare bill last month. What he did not tell us was that this bill does not take effect until 2006. What he did not tell us is that this bill gives the insurance…

It is okay to be in a conflict of interest but because our administration is so pro-drug company, we give you the waiver? I wish he would answer some questions about what the waiver is all about, because I do not think the people at home…

How a Department gives a waiver to one guy to do this and not that. I think Mr. Scully is a man of integrity, but I do not think the system is quite right that would allow somebody to look for a job, run this Medicare system that has 40…

I saw that article. I like Tom Scully. He came to our committee and he spoke. He is a reasonable, decent guy. I do not accuse him of anything untoward. I do wonder about a system, though, where he announced several months ago he was…

Epilepsy is a devastating and prevalent illness in our country. Ineffective treatment, delayed or lack of access to high-quality specialized care and the severity of the underlying neurological disorder are all possible contributors to the…

I was reminded, as I see what this House has continued to do, to deny the child tax credit to the working families, to the families who have children, but families who are working families... When you look at it with this war in Iraq tied…

If I may, may I say the actions of the administration are corrupt and incompetent?

One out of six manufacturing jobs in Ohio is gone. That means for every six people in manufacturing, the day that George Bush put up his right hand and took the oath of office, one out of those six people across my State, our State, has…

I rise in support of the Animal Drug User Fee Act. H.R. 1260... builds on a successful program for fee-funded expedited review of new human drug applications... We have done not quite as good a job on expediting the approval of generic…

I stand in support of the motion which instructs conferees to abandon the privatization provisions in the House prescription drug bill. Under H.R. 1, Medicare would end as we know it. Medicare would end in 7 years. In 7 years Medicare…

Where I come from in Ohio, trade is a four-letter word, J-O-B-S. Unfortunately, the President, the United States Trade Representative, and the Republican leadership do not spell very well. They ought to simply look around. Since President…

Are you saying then that the coverage for Federal retirees is significantly better than the coverage that you are providing or that this House provided under H.R. 1, the Republican Medicare prescription drug plan?

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased we are considering final passage of this global AIDS legislation. Last year, almost 3 million people died of AIDS, 2 million died of tuberculosis, and 1 million died of malaria. In this bill, we are responding to…