Sherrod Brown

Those tax cuts are not free. As you know, Mr. Chairman, they will add over $1 trillion dollars to the deficit.

Despite the fact that we are 9 years removed from the recession, the Administration has embarked on a substantial fiscal stimulus, permanently slashing the corporate tax rate, and providing the largest benefits to the wealthiest Americans.

Nationwide, the unemployment rate for African American workers is double that for whites workers--equal to the gap at the start of the civil rights movement.

The country is in its ninth year of economic recovery, though, as we know, 2017 marked the worst year for job creation since 2010.

Medicaid expansion is an issue that Governor Kasich and I agree on--without Medicaid expansion, hundreds of thousands of Ohioans currently struggling with addiction and mental illness would lack access to treatment.

None of these policies actually goes after the pharmaceutical industry, your former employers, the folks who set these prices in the first place.

It is just morally reprehensible.

This is the party that cares so much about deficits when there are Democratic Presidents, but not so much now.

These family-owned businesses that have been passed on for three and sometimes four generations are at risk.

Millions of retired workers are at risk of losing the pension plans they spent an entire career paying into.

I hope that you will speak to us and ask particularly people on the other side of the aisle for the dollars you need and the flexibility you need to put those cops on the beat.

Isn't that message to those who want to game the system and those who want to defraud the system, isn't the message that the SEC is not the cop on the beat that even the new Chair wants it to be?

Sometimes it appears that scam artists and hackers may understand more about the technology than most market participants.

The volatility of Bitcoin has also been remarkable, defying attempts to think of it as a traditional currency.

It is critical for our regulators to understand innovation and technology so that markets can grow and evolve while investors and consumers are protected.

He said he would protect Medicare. He said he would protect Medicaid. He said he would protect Social Security.

There is a lot of belief on both sides of the aisle. I hear Senators talking privately about this.

My time is ticking. 98-2 in the Senate, 3 no votes in the House.

He cannot get any more bipartisan than the work that Senator Crapo and I did on the Russia sanctions bill--92-2 it passed.

I hope the classified portion is more detailed and compelling.

So to be clear, the Chairman's bill, with your acquiescence, will deregulate banks like Santander...

I challenge that statement. Maybe the regulators appointed by President Trump... do not say it should be 250.

While the President likes to take credit for what he labeled an ugly bubble a little over a year ago, it will be interesting to see if he is eager to take credit for a down market.

For the second year in a row, life expectancy for Americans actually fell, driven in large part by an opioid epidemic that has been ignored by too many in Washington.

Three million Americans have lost their health insurance since this President took office, the largest jump since Gallup started tracking coverage a decade ago.