Sherrod Brown

If confirmed, will you work with me to ensure all Medicare beneficiaries, whether they are in traditional Medicare or enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, have access to the same benefits and out-of-pocket protections?

Will you commit to working with my staff and others on this committee to create and strengthen initiatives across CMS to address social determinants of health and reduce health disparities?

Ms. Palm, will you commit to working with Senator Casey and me and the future head of HRSA to make sure that the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program and training for the next generation of pediatricians remains a…

Thank you for always raising oral health and dental health, and that is so, so important, both for Medicare, obviously, and Medicaid, but especially Medicaid and the work that he has done.

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 6:26 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, April 13, 2021, at 12 noon…

You have my commitment to get you the resources you need--I know Chairman Wyden cares about that--to hold corporations accountable for taxes they owe;

I want to address the alarmism we hear from some of my friends across the aisle about improper payments with the EITC and the CTC.

The expectation from me and from Senator Bennet, especially on this committee, and other members of Congress, is the distribution will start going out monthly starting in July.

The 2017 tax law which Senator Wyden and I and others on this committee, the Democratic side, opposed for many reasons, was a giveaway to the wealthiest people in the country

I am working with Senator Mark Warner from Virginia on this committee on a framework that will get rid of incentives in the tax code to shift jobs and factories abroad, reward investing in American jobs, and make multinational corporations…

I sometimes refer to this as an 'America last' tax bill.

These tax changes that Chairman Wyden is fighting for are so important.

Under President Biden's leadership, we are once again the envy of the world, on track to lead the world in vaccinations.

We're showing people what we can do to make all our lives better, when we invest in and follow America's scientists and public health experts.

We have got to make sure that veterans and other people who are on the verge of foreclosure or on the verge of eviction in their rental units are aware of this and the money gets out quickly.

We know that thousands, probably way more, probably tens or hundreds of thousands of servicemembers and veterans have fallen behind in their mortgage payments or their rentals, rental payments.

We put some money in the bipartisan bill at the end of the year, and then put a bigger chunk of money into the still bipartisan bill.

If there is any good news in this it is that recently, for the first time after 20 years of Republicans cutting funding, and then banning funding to first CDC and then NIH to research this public health crisis of gun ownership and gun…

If we want an economy that creates jobs and improves infrastructure in all communities, and allows our businesses and our workers to compete around the world, then instead of running from these opportunities, we have to seize them.

People aren't stupid. They see what's happening, and they know it threatens not only their air and their water, but their livelihoods and their homes.

We can't have a 21st Century economy built on a 19th Century model--that doesn't make environmental sense. It also doesn't make economic sense.

Throughout COVID, higher nurse staffing levels have been associated with fewer COVID-19 cases and deaths.

Finally, they found that taxpayer spending per patient episode increased by 11 percent.

They found that patients at private equity-owned facilities were more likely to be given anti-psychotic drugs.

In fact, the researchers found that more than 20,000--20,000--Medicare beneficiaries died as a result of private equity-ownership of nursing homes during that sample period of 12 years.