Sherrod Brown

That principle of sovereignty should cut across all political lines, from conservatives to liberals.

I would add that my fellow Ohioan, Senator Portman, is a cosponsor of this. Special thanks go to Senator Graham-- this is the Graham-Brown NATO amendment--also to Senators McCain, Rubio, Casey, and Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse from…

Weakening regulatory standards and effectively incapacitating FSOC, the Federal Reserve, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and other Federal regulators will put us much closer to another financial disaster.

The Committee should, therefore, reject the financial industry's unsubstantiated claims and requests for massive deregulation and demolition of the Dodd-Frank Act.

I am concerned that some seem to have forgotten that we even had a financial crisis a decade ago.

If we screw up either effort, whether it is Dodd-Frank, whether it is housing finance reform, whether it is health care, clearly the economy pays a price.

I can assure you that families in my home State still remember and continue to live with the consequences of the crisis.

In my view, basically if we roll back these regulations, what we will have on our hands will be another crisis, and everybody in this room should be warned about that.

By my count, the report includes about two dozen of The Clearing House's recommendations.

Nothing could be more important to economic growth than safeguarding the health and the financial well-being of working families.

Education promises one of the best paths to a better future for a Veteran and their dependents.

But the tragedy particularly hits rural Ohio hard. That is one of the reasons that so many of us are alarmed at efforts in this body to take away insurance from people getting opioid treatment.

Thanks for walking the Committee through the work USDA does on the opioid crisis.

What I worry about is that somewhere in the U.S. financial system right now is the next Wells Fargo scandal taking shape.

This Committee did not--failed to fill out, failed to confirm, even to have hearings on a number of nominees.

Wall Street reform, as you remember, changed to be very--as we were very aware of what was happening in community banks with FDIC charges, assessments, we changed under Dodd-Frank how the FDIC charges those assessments on insured banks.

We cannot ignore issues like this and pretend they do not affect the economy.

The CFPB has been remarkably effective, and to the extent that you hear industry complaints about it, that is probably an indication that it might be doing its job.

The President proposes to eliminate two important programs for economic development: Community Development Block Grants and the CDFI Fund.

Yet the President's proposed budget makes the situation worse.

Obamacare is failing the American people, and its devastating effects are more apparent every day.

I, and every Democrat I know, have been at the table since before the ACA was passed, getting stood up for the last 8 years.

It is a little curious to blame Medicaid, as you seem to be doing, for the system that has resulted in 50,000 deaths.

Do not cut Medicaid--do not cut it and do not end the expansion.

We are not winning this fight against this epidemic.