Sherrod Brown

I hope Members, when they vote on this, will do one thing: look at the amendment and read it. And let me just read the words because I think they are important to focus on. Here are the words of this amendment: Consumers shall retain the…

It is this Senator's view that the option that the Senator just described for the employer about the cafeteria plan, which I think is an important option, is the option that ought to be preserved for other consumers who do not fit in the…

To follow up, if I may, my understanding of the reading of the Domenici amendment is that he does exempt from these limitations restrictions to small employers. That, I think, is a commendable aspect of his amendment. But I do not see an…

The Bradley amendment denies consumers the right to select the type of insurance coverage they wish to purchase. While I would hope all policies would include the type of maternity coverage he suggests, for the Federal Government to…

I wanted to indicate my appreciation to the Senator from Georgia and also indicate it is not my intention to add new language that unnecessarily inflames the issue. To the extent there is a way we can work together on language that needs…

Mr. President, the heart of the resolution is simply to ask for the annual statement on the threat that faces the United States from incoming ballistic missiles utilizing warheads that could involve nuclear technology or chemical or…

I absolutely reject that thinking, when India has become a more and more liberalized economy, an economy much more in line with ours, an economy which has welcomed $5 million in American investment... This is a golden opportunity to reach…

The Armenians have suffered in the early part of this century, in the early part of this century at the hands of the Turks. The Armenians have suffered through a Soviet regime for decades. This is simply the transition that the Armenians…

The medical savings accounts that the Speaker has extolled, the virtues, over and over and over again, as an idea of a big insurance company, major contributors to the Speaker that salivate over the prospect of getting to write all this…

Scott Paper lays off 11,000 workers; their top executive gets millions of dollars in stock options. AT&T lays off 40,000 employees; its top management gets huge bonuses. Revco Drugstore in Twinsburg, OH, lays off 1,100 people; 4 of their…

I believe we have worked this amendment out. I am proposing to alter the amendment by dropping the section dealing with BLM, section (c), applying it only to the Secretary of Agriculture, and in section (e), dropping any reference to a…

My friend from Ohio is actually my mother's Congressman, but she taught me a long time ago that I should take care of a problem when it is there. I do not think that the kind of back-room deals that were made in this bill with lobbyists…

I will ask the Senator from Arizona, he has indicated his amendment will have a positive revenue impact, save millions of dollars. Has the amendment been reviewed by the Congressional Budget Office? And what is their estimate of how much…

As we give to the States an enormous grant of new authority and new responsibility, an ability literally to appropriate the funds and allocate the funds that have been taken by the Federal Government, I think it is incumbent upon us to…

Many of us were hopeful that admonition for a republican form of government meant just that. But unfortunately, apparently it was not.

My understanding is--and perhaps Members will correct me if I am wrong--in that amendment, they do not fully change that prohibition. On its face the amendment appears to repeal the prohibition, but it in fact continues it in a more subtle…

They can if it is a private company. But they cannot with regard to a city or State job.

The statute is very clear. They cannot refer them to it unless it is an entirely new job, a new organization, a new department, or new bureaucracy.

This modification incorporates the suggestions of the distinguished Senator from Ohio, Senator Glenn. It clarifies some of the aspects of the sense of the Congress relating to Fitzsimons and broadens some of the sense of the Congress…

I again ask for support of the Dingell amendment. Fifty-five sites will not be cleaned up if this amendment does not pass.

The nearly unanimous action by the Foreign Relations Committee is only a first step. Most importantly, there remains $1.4 billion worth of military equipment which Pakistan bought and paid for but which has never been delivered because of…

One of the things that Ambassador Kantor told us today at a meeting with a group of about a dozen Members is that the Japanese have found a way with fixing cars with auto repairs of shutting out American auto parts so that if you are an…

First there was school lunches. Republicans voted to cut school lunches to pay for tax cuts for American's wealthiest citizens. Then Republicans proposed cuts in student loans to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest special interests. Now…

I thank the chairman. Under section 3505 the Director of the Office of Management and Budget has a duty to, in consultation with agency heads, set annual agency goals to reduce information collection burdens. Would the chairman agree that…

American investors were benefiting. There were incentive for American investors to pull their money out, and that is what accelerated the whole downward plunge of the peso. You couple the politics of NAFTA, that the Mexican Government and…