Sherrod Brown

Senators, Vietnam Veterans of America thanks you for your attention to our position and our conclusions vis a vis the recommendations of the Commission on Care.

They really want to know they have the choice. They are generally mostly satisfied with Cincinnati VA or Dayton VA or Cleveland, but they want to know they have that choice, which I think is so important.

Thank you, Senator Boozman, and for the work that we have done together on all kinds of issues.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I also view today's hearing as the first step in a comprehensive examination of the program leading up to its reauthorization in 2017.

I hope to get an update from Deputy Associate Administrator Wright on how the NFIP is responding to the devastation in Louisiana.

It will have a direct impact on Ohioans and other Americans who live in or near floodplains.

Flooding is the most common and most costly natural disaster facing our country.

Thank you. Chairman Isakson and Ranking Member Blumenthal thanks for this hearing very much and for, more than any Committee I have ever served on in the Senate--six or seven--although when I was on the Ethics Committee and Senator Isakson…

We need to watch for an uptick in acquisitions of U.S. firms by Chinese state-owned enterprises that could pose national security concerns for our country.

These loans are not just a risk for the Chinese government. They present a risk to global financial stability as well.

China should also reduce state ownership and state control in its economy.

China has not transitioned to a market economy; it has not lived up to the commitments it made when it joined the World Trade Organization.

China's economic growth is slowing. As a result, China continues to make decisions to boost its economy, even when those decisions are not good for long-term stability and even when they violate international trade rules.

I appreciate the always good insight from the senior Senator from Oregon, my colleague on the Finance Committee. I say thank you to Senator Wyden. ____________________

Enhanced supervision of these systemically important financial institutions together with the significant capital surcharge will provide more stability to our financial system and discourage SIFIs from becoming even larger and more…

In addition to instituting much needed reforms to bank capital, to liquidity, to risk management, and other standards, Wall Street reform tailored its approach to the regulation of community banks.

We should be listening to people who really paid the worse kind of price for what happened less than a decade ago.

Congress put in place a framework for capital and liquidity rules, including stress tests and living wills, to strengthen the U.S. banking system.

My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are failing to invest in infrastructure, in public works, in research and development, in education, in training--the very building blocks of our economic success.

They would like to repeal Dodd-Frank and return our country to the casino capitalism that caused so much ruin for families and communities across our country.

I would like to see and I think many of us on this panel would like to see a more diverse Federal Reserve System.

The presumptive nominee of the Republican Party is a factory of bad ideas.

We have particular concern about the lack of transparency in those waivers that are granted.

The final rule would provide the market and the public with some assurance that senior executives at financial institutions will not be rewarded for taking inappropriate risks that could harm the markets, could harm their employees, or…