Sherrod Brown

I intend to focus my efforts on removing trade barriers and eliminating unfair trade practices that contribute to the trade deficit.

Does not that show how unfair forced arbitration is to customers?

A gold mine for hackers should be a digital Fort Knox when it comes to security.

Does not that show how unfair forced arbitration is?

The story of this data breach is a familiar one. A big financial institution screwed up. Executives walk away with millions of dollars.

Most Americans never chose to have their data scooped up by Equifax.

The CEO was overseeing a mass fraud. He gets a compensation increase from $19 to $21 million a year.

On average, the CFPB found consumers paid $7,700 in arbitration overall, in arbitration cases.

It just strikes us as hypocritical to be boasting about this minor increase.

The company, pure and simple, lied to this Committee and lied to the public.

You defend wage theft--your company is defending wage theft in court by fighting these overtime claims by your employees.

So it is pretty troubling that you continue to dig in and say arbitration is better for customers because it clearly is not.

I hope that the U.S. Senate will actually do something about this for a change.

I think it was made in good faith. But I also think that forced arbitration clauses always give the advantage to the employer, to the bank, as we know.

But that it took you, you the company--you personally 8 months, you the company 13 months to disclose such a violation of the public trust just makes me incredulous.

The PSA message, essentially, is suicide prevention is everybody's business, and we need family members, friends, coworkers to be able to identify people at risk to get them help, whether it is at VA or outside VA.

In my State, 244 veterans took their own lives in 2014.

We all have to earn the public's trust every day. Right now, the SEC needs to do more, and it needs to make sure that the companies it regulates do better.

Equifax violated the public's trust twice--first when it failed to secure the volumes of data it collects and profits from about Americans' financial lives, and then a second time when it waited over a month to admit to the breach.

How are Main Street investors expected to have confidence that the SEC can hold big companies accountable when the SEC is not more immediately forthcoming?

We expect that companies that hold Americans' personal and financial data will keep that information secure and be upfront with the public.

Senate Republicans haven't gotten answers to the most basic questions about the real-world effects of their bill.

If we are forced to make the draconian cuts required by this bill, all of our efforts would be focused on how we cut $15-30 billion from our Medicaid program.

The traditional Medicaid program--which is a lifeline for people with disabilities, seniors, kids and pregnant women--suffers draconian cuts.

Instead, what's on offer with Graham-Cassidy would trigger a health-care disaster--a death spiral in the insurance markets.