Sherrod Brown

They are punished if they try to save for an emergency.

That's why earlier this year, I introduced the SSI Restoration Act with 20 cosponsors, including Senators Wyden, Warren, Menendez, Casey, Bennet, and Whitehouse from this committee.

There has not been a hearing in Congress specifically about increasing benefits or eligibility since the Reagan administration.

Now is the time to finally restore this critical part of our Social Security system back to its real intent.

They now force millions of disabled and older Americans to live well below the poverty line.

We will ensure safe and efficient transportation for everyone.

We will also build the manufacturing, power production, and maintenance jobs of the future.

The Biden-Harris administration is laser-focused on supporting good work in transit, like what we are seeing in Minnesota.

This level of Federal funding will touch lives in every corner of the country, including here in Minnesota.

Every Republican voted against the child tax credit, for instance, and every Democrat voted for it. Hold us to that.

I expect we get the 50 Democrats on board as we did last night.

We will move forward on all kinds of children’s issues and healthcare and family issues.

I mean, last night, in a party line vote, Republicans have decided to oppose everything.

We will be doing major investments in housing. We will lengthen the life -- we will extend the child tax credits.

It`s up to us to deliver. It`s up to you and all of us to show people who delivered and that every Republican voted against the child tax credit, for instance, and every Democrat voted for it.

I want voters in Macon, Georgia in July of 2022, and to say, you know, I voted for Biden and Harris. I voted for Warnock and Ossoff and my life got better.

We will be doing as you call it, human infrastructure, call it whatever you want, we’ll be doing major investments in housing.

We know that Mitch McConnell has said he wants Joe Biden to fail the way he said eight -- many years ago, 12 years ago that he wanted Barack Obama to fail.

I wish my Republican colleagues would put as much effort into bringing down the cost of housing for families as they do into this political theatre.

The Ohioans I talk to are exhausted by this kind of division and distraction.

I'm disappointed the Ranking Member continues to act otherwise.

If all politics is local, I am as local as it gets. This takes compromise and again it takes delivering results not insults.

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