Sherrod Brown

This tax cut raises -- it causes a huge budget deficit to give money to the wealthiest people in the country, creates a huge hole in the budget. And who's going to fill the hole in the budget? Not the lobbyists walking in and out of…

OK. My one comment about CHIP, if that is OK, is that there are letters that are going to go out. I so respect what you did with Senator Kennedy. I know that your work was exemplary on it, 20 years ago, to start the Children's Health…

This is not a giveaway. This is something we have done bipartisanly. Is there something we can do to----

But one of the things we could be doing instead of this bill is the CHIP program, which you proudly, with Senator Kennedy, offered 20 years ago. There are going to be letters that will go out to people in Virginia next and Ohio and other…

Thank you. I accept that, but this bill was not spending money on the poor, except Senator Lee and Senator Rubio wanted to do a child tax credit, and we have done the earned-income tax credit. You supported some of this----

I am fine. I just wanted to clarify something. When we had our little exchange a couple of Thursdays ago, I talked about the bill I thought was much more heavily weighted toward the top 1 percent. I wanted to put another number out there…

The question is this. I appreciated the exchange we had in the Finance Committee the other night----

I am concerned about the tradition or the potential--the way that the President could look at this.

I hope you will make your decisions based on facts independent from the political pressure from the President of the United States and from the Treasury Secretary.

Many people in my State have yet to feel the impact of the economic recovery.

Since 2008, bank profits are up, executive compensations rebounded. The wages for working people are stagnant.

The wealth gap between whites on the one hand and African Americans and Latinos on the other has not narrowed.

I am concerned about the Administration's attempt to push out a full-time independent director at the CFPB.

I do worry about White House pressure and a White House we have never seen the likes of.

Loosening the rules for some of the country's largest banks is not the way to solve these problems.

I congratulate you on your nomination to be Chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

I am disappointed that President Trump has broken with the tradition of re-appointing the last President's Federal Reserve Chair.

The Fed was created as an independent agency. A broad consensus has emerged among policymakers and other informed observers around the world that better economic performance is achieved when the conduct of monetary policy is free from…

How do we get that from putting it on hold to putting it in the trash, for want of a better term?

Since 2010, we have reduced veterans' homelessness by 47 percent.

You begin to hear more and more on the news that some people inside the government want to privatize the VA.

I am just always concerned, as concerned as I am about the VAs.

There has been, as more and more veterans have been cheated by some of these for-profit colleges and universities--and 'cheated' is the right word, not just veterans but lots and lots of people have been cheated.

I know it is a huge system, and it is difficult.

You have been an advocate. You would not be the national commander if you had not been an advocate for pretty much your whole life for veterans.