Sherrod Brown

Preventive care for prostate cancer, for breast cancer, for osteoporosis, for diabetes, a whole host of new preventive care programs paid for by Medicare all in the last 2 or 3 years. That is something people should certainly take…

I want to add that the leadership of the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone), especially in his efforts to fight Republican efforts to privatize Medicare, have been very, very important in our so far successful efforts to do that. One…

9 months ago the President and House Democrats laid out an education agenda for the 21st century. The American people are still waiting for Congress to act. Democrats want to help local governments modernize schools and help build and…

The message we send to the world today by voting no on fast track is crystal clear. The primary focus of the next generation of trade policies will be in support of worker rights, strong environmental laws and solid food safety…

This year we have a great opportunity, a once-in-a-generation chance to really save Social Security. We can take our budget surplus and begin to pay back the IOUs into our Social Security system. Unfortunately, though, Republicans are…

Mr. Speaker, I am so proud to be able to stand before the Members today, a day when the House will finally vote on one of the most important pieces of legislation affecting the health of minorities and their families. For more than a year…

Last week Levi Strauss laid off 6,400 workers, mostly women, most of them making between $5.50 and $7.50 an hour. But last year, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Levi Strauss gave its No. 2 executive, Thomas Tusher, $105.8 million…

Tomorrow we will vote on fast track, expanding the North American Free Trade Agreement to dozens of other countries. NAFTA cost tens of thousands of American jobs. So does fast track. NAFTA threatens the safety of our food supply. So does…

When NAFTA passed, obviously the three of us and our friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Hunter], voted no on it back in 1993, but the people that supported NAFTA never really prepared, they never really prepared the border area for…

We have no business moving ahead on NAFTA, moving to expand NAFTA until we really do protect the American public with better quality food, vegetables, fruits, meats, whatever.

It is my intention that when you come down to several parties being deemed qualified and the contract not going to the one who is qualified and the lowest, then I think the public is entitled to at least an explanation. That is the…

I thank the Chair. Let me say it is my understanding that the amendment does not give anyone a chance to open up bids. All it does is merely ask for disclosure. It suggests that there ought to be a bidding process. I want to assure my…

So, by manipulating the prices, they are avoiding recognizing profit in this country and thus avoid paying taxes in this country?

I think it is the game played sometimes with automobile manufacturers, where they take their profit overseas and overprice the automobile as it comes in here so they do not show any profit in the United States.

Doesn't our tax law now give us the tools to go after them when they play those games with prices?

I wonder if there are other countries that have provisions like this. This, in effect, is that it taxes profits on activity outside of the United States, I take it?

If I can put this in my own words, and maybe the Senator will correct me, we are not saying there is a section in the code that does that, we are saying it is simply not covered in the code?

The other question I had--there were several others, as I went through it. I notice the distinguished Senator from North Dakota said, ``We encourage moving jobs abroad, and we ought to take that language out of the code.'' I have looked…

The Senator talked about repealing something out of the law, yet there is nothing repealed in the amendment.

I notice, reading through the amendment, it gives a special exemption for oil. Everybody is subject to this special tax except the oil companies. Why was the decision made? What is the reasoning for giving the special treatment to oil?

We need to look at home health care, which can save us money. We need to look at the cost of prescription drugs to bring that cost down. What is it, what is it in the mindset that says, let us unravel the one system that we have that is…

The same thing, only worse, I would add, because now the tax break mostly for the wealthy is twice the size Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Dole originally planned, which means, I guess, they will not tell us, but we have to figure it will mean twice…

If I recall, he said he had corrected it initially. Then a staff person said, ``Newt, come over here,'' and he explained he had not. And he ignored it and said, ``We will take care of it later.'' It has not been. Fortunately, a…

In other words, that $46 payment, if you are especially poor, that $46 payment the government will help you with so you can qualify for Medicare.

There have been efforts by the gentleman from Michigan and me in the Committee on Commerce, and by the gentleman from New Jersey to deal with the fraud questions, because we can save $80 or $90 billion in the next 7 years simply by…