Sherrod Brown

We know that our Nation's infrastructure is more than the Brent Spence Bridge over the Ohio River in Cincinnati, as important as that is.

I appreciate how you are stepping up and using the Subcommittee process, which is so very important for all of us.

I just saw on my screen one of the real leaders in this, Senator Bennet.

I am very happy the President has put forward a proposal to do this.

You have been withstanding drastic budget cuts, a pandemic, and frankly a Congress that has not done its job in providing the resources you need.

I am proud today to introduce to the Committee a proud son of Ohio, Jonathan Meyer.

You say you have focused on lending to small businesses and growing the economy, but I look at your actions, not your words.

They do not get a taxpayer bailout. They all remember that Wall Street did.

Working poor are two words that should not go together.

Today is the first time we have ever had the CEOs of the Nation's six largest banks together before the Committee.

You said you would allow their voices to be heard, but that is not what remaining neutral really means.

There is a reason towns across the country like Mansfield look the way they do.

Your decisions affect the lives of millions of Americans--their paychecks, their opportunities, their retirement savings.

It's past time for the financial industry to be as good to the American people as the Nation has been to you.

Wall Street's interests and Main Street's interests no longer match up.

You all need to do more, and we want to see permanent change, of course, as the country--the diversity of this country needs to be reflected in the Senate, in board rooms, and in CEO job positions.

During the pandemic, 5,000 community banks across the country, their lending went up 10 percent.

We have a racial wealth and income gap that has barely budged since we passed the Civil Rights Act.

Over a century ago, Louis Brandeis wrote about the concentration of corporate power and how it distorts the market.

Your bank's lending fell 14 percent over the last year. You just announced $25 billion in stock buybacks.

It is past time for the financial industry to be as good to the American people as the Nation has been to you, the financial industry.

I've heard some people, including many of my conservative colleagues, say that we had the best economy in our lifetime before the coronavirus hit.

There is no place in the Federal Reserve for racism, and there should be no place for it in our society.

It is not just a moral issue. It is an economic one.

The only explanation I can come up with is that they will block anything that might cut into their profits even a cent.