Sherrod Brown

By increasing transparency, by enhancing oversight, by moving to more resilient and stable trading platforms, Congress wanted to make sure that future crises could be detected sooner and would do less damage.

I think there is a huge majority of the country... that want you to do that.

I have said in this Committee before, my wife and I live in Zip Code 44105 in Cleveland. That Zip Code 9 years ago for the first half of the year had more foreclosures than any Zip Code in the United States of America.

I certainly continue to support the proposals we made in 2009.

American taxpayers paid the price for this reckless behavior.

I would be concerned with eliminating Title II in its entirety.

Iran is a State sponsor of terrorism. It destabilizes the region. It violates the human rights of its people.

We thank Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Bernard Sanders, (I-VT) for introducing the bill so our most vulnerable veterans get the care they need for a better quality of life.

Is it your goal to block all imports made with forced labor from coming into the U.S.?

This position is too important to deny this committee a vote.

We should be working to expand and strengthen Social Security.

There has been an 8-decade Manichean struggle in this country on the issue of social insurance and the role of government.

We would ask the sponsors of this amendment to work with us to ensure that we can accomplish our shared goals of encouraging investment in energy efficient homes while also maintaining a safe and sound mortgage market for homebuyers.

Would the Senator yield for a question? I would like to commend my colleagues for their support for energy efficiency programs that reduce residential energy consumption. Expanding the use of these technologies in our everyday lives is a…

I mean, I have been to clinics, treatment centers around the State which clearly have the, as you say, the infrastructure to be able to do--if they had the dollars.

The limit that Congress put on providers... does not make sense now.

We should avoid criminalizing pregnant women.

I am hopeful that with the new president next year that we can go back and begin to instead of having votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act or not, whichever side you vote, that we can actually go back and begin to make changes against.

We applaud our Congressional leadership for recognizing that increasing naloxone access in our country does not alone fix the opioid epidemic.

The current opioid crisis, as is all too well-known in Ohio, means that young people are dying at astonishing rates too often leaving young children.

We need to fund research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as we do not know what the long term consequences to these infants are going to be.

I am a great believer in the local community and where the local community comes together.

I think the other thing average citizens can do is to say, hey, look, in this community, somehow we have to have education at every grade level.

I opposed the waiver pretty obviously.

Understanding you are part of an administration with the legislature that is asking for the waiver. But, does that make sense to you, when dollars that would have been available now may be used for other things, when we know how every…