Sherrod Brown

The real customers of the OCC are the Ohio families and people across the country who suffer

Rather than invest in their workers and communities, big banks are plowing profits into pushing up their stock price.

The banks are, in his word, his agency's 'customers' and 'partners.'

I want to thank Senators Grassley and Casey for their work on a bipartisan bill we introduced together.

Shamefully, it is partly because we have under-invested in public health for decades.

My State of Ohio struggles with some of the highest rates of infant mortality and maternal mortality in the country.

It is clear these risks to the financial system and Americans' personal data are growing.

Cutting corners on cybersecurity risks real harm to real people's lives.

I applaud your work with the Treasury Secretary to allow each enterprise to retain a small capital buffer to absorb quarterly accounting fluctuations.

I thank the journalists of this country, who are not enemies of the people and who do their jobs every day, explaining complicated issues and fighting every day to do things as straightforwardly and honestly as they can. So I start with…

President Trump will be able to nominate six of the seven members to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

It sounds a lot like what the Republicans did on a Supreme Court nominee.

Thank you for your willingness to serve our country

I thank the Senator from Montana for the unanimous consent request.

This law simply was not middle-class tax reform. It was a major giveaway, as Senator McCaskill said, Senator Whitehouse has said; it is a major giveaway to corporations and executives.

I sat in the White House with the President and a handful of Senators from this committee as the President promised us this bill would create more jobs, it would mean a $4,500 raise for every worker.

How do we square longer wait times or farmers not deciding--deciding not to participate in these programs with your touted improved customer service?

We need staffs in these offices that have the expertise and knowledge to make sure family farms stay in business.

We do not want to lose out or drop back from where we were moving in the momentum.

It is important. As I said, it is important on this side of the table.

We cannot walk away. Will you commit to finding additional resources for this critical water quality program?

The administration is--well, made more than noises--has attempted to cut GLRI.

We need your strong voice and continued support on that, on conservation program funding.

I thank the Senator from Rhode Island for his leadership and his outspokenness--how he has shown the importance of the Senate actually doing its job on both climate change and campaign finance and how much they are related to each other…

I guess I can only see that you are leaving your options open to deregulate these foreign banks that have assets above 50 and under 250 assets in the U.S.