Sherrod Brown

They have too much experience watching the largest multinational corporations thrive, while our communities get left behind.

Those days are over.

We are done with that. And as some of the talk we have heard today about raising the minimum wage, I want to be clear to workers listening that when politicians are saying they simply do not want you to get a raise, they do not want you to…

That is what President Biden is doing with his rescue plan.

It is about recovery, it is about rebuilding.

We are going to get to work for all the Americans who have not had much of a voice in Washington or in our economy.

Anyone who listened to real people realized that the 2001 corporate tax cuts were not a success story; neither were the 2017 corporate tax cuts.

We will not settle for less.

Ohioans and working families all over the country know what that is like.

We are the world's richest country with the world's largest economy.

It should not be a surprise that our first hearing is about the coronavirus.

It means significant rental assistance dollars. It means help for small business. It means opening up our schools.

Yes, we`re going to vote on it.

One of the things Janet Yellen today said, this could scar the economy for a generation.

People -- we`re going to see a wave of evictions in the middle of a pandemic in the middle of the winter if we don`t act, and if we don`t act decisively and go big.

It’d be great if Republicans really wanted to do bipartisanship, but they don’t.

We have got to go big. There’s just no question that’s the right way to go.

Yes. Joe Biden spoke to the caucus, to the Democratic Caucus today. So did Janet Yellen. They both said, go big.

It`s why we need to go big and why Biden is right about this, why Democrats are going to stick together from Bernie Sanders to Joe Manchin.

The Biden plan is what you guys are going to vote on?

We have to go big. There’s -- there’s no -- it’s better to overdo this than underdo it.

Yes. Joe Biden spoke to the caucus, to the Democratic Caucus today. So did Janet Yellen. They both said, go big.

People -- we`re going to see a wave of evictions in the middle of a pandemic in the middle of the winter if we don`t act, and if we don`t act decisively and go big.

It’d be great if Republicans really wanted to do bipartisanship, but they don’t.

We have to go big. There’s just no question that’s the right way to go.