Sherrod Brown

Attacking a nominee's positions is one thing. Calling a nominee 'comrade,' as if we do not know what that means, is something else.

You support tailored regulation for community banks who do not engage in the risky activities of the largest Wall Street banks.

Not a unanimous consent request, but I note that joining me on the floor today is Ben Ashman, for whom we have given consent to be on the floor as a Senate fellow in our office for the year.

There really is no excuse. And a number of us in this Committee--I know Senator Rounds cares about it. I know that Senator Hassan cares about it.

I guess I do not know why you cannot do all this without the Lambert-Harvey bill.

One of the reasons that Senator Tester does this job well as Chair but as a Senator from Montana is that he listens to people at home and hears about problems that vets face, especially the gaps in programs at DOD and VA.

It takes three months to train for a civilian to become a Marine, but the servicemember is expected to return a normal civilian life after a minimum of five days of training.

All they care about is power and right-wing judges and big tax cuts. That’s what they live for. That’s what they continue to do. And the voters aren’t going to buy it this time.

They’ve lost their minds. I mean, we have a good strong candidate, Tim Ryan, who understands the dignity of work, who’s running his campaign putting workers at the midst -- at the center of his campaign is he will do that in the Senate.

Child Tax Credits going to be as popular, social security. And how dare Republicans, all of whom voted no, as you remember, and Democrats all of us voted yes, how dare they try to take it away in 2022 or 2024 or whenever the next election…

I want voters in Macon, Georgia in July to say, you know, I voted for Biden and Harris and I voted for Warnock and Ossoff and my life got better. And that’s what we’re going to be seeing and hearing.

Yesterday, the Administration announced its Military and Veteran Suicide Prevention Strategy. I appreciate that two of the main topics addressed in the strategy are upstream risk and lethal means.

It is pretty shocking to me when we expose so many servicemen and women to burn pits

We continue to hear about the threat of far too many suicides or the incidence of far too many suicides, and yet, it just seems we--just I do not understand why we are not doing everything we can to increase the--to make better the handoff…

I look forward to learning more about the joint public safety education initiatives among DOD, VA, and HHS, and DHS.

I often begin these hearings by taking us back to 2008, and to the years that followed, because we are still living with the fallout--and in the case of the Libor scandal, we are still cleaning up a mess caused by the biggest banks in the…

Democrats have two choices here, we can either complain about what is excluded from this package, or Democrats can herald the transformative policies that they’ve actually been able to successfully fund for the first time in history.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:41 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, October 28, 2021, at 10 a.m…

For the information of Senators, there will be three rollcall votes starting at 11 a.m., and four rollcall votes at 2:30 p.m. ____________________

You're stepping into this role at a time when so many people feel like they don't have a voice in our economy.

Now, after an election where Americans decisively rejected that corporate kowtowing, the Biden administration has ushered in a new era of consumer protection.

Unfortunately, for four years, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was held back by an Administration that tried to tear down the Bureau from within.

A more diverse agency is better government.

I chair, as you may know, the Banking and Housing Committee, and we have great interest in this.

I am concerned that practice, putting it mildly, does not improve compliance.