Sherrod Brown

Folks who have health insurance are better able to access critical mental health and substance abuse services.

This is going to take what we have all come to talk about as the 'all of the above' approach.

If people were dropping dead at this rate of Ebola or Zika, how would we all be responding?

Opioid addiction knows no boundaries. It is an equal opportunity killer of men and women, young and old, city, suburban, rural, wealthy and poor, white, black and Hispanic.

This hearing that Senator Portman called is a step toward that.

This is a public health crisis--opioid addiction--as so many of these other things are--and how related they are.

Senator Brown has been a ferocious supporter of it.

It is strange credibility to think that would be good Government.

The industry--and it is the industry--continues to fight CFPB's existence, and those in Congress who are advocating for the industry join them to fight their existence.

The Durbin rule, maybe it was added in the middle of the night, as you claim, but it was a Senate vote, and it was a heavily lobbied Senate vote on both sides.

You really--you make the statement that all of a sudden because of the Durbin rule, these banks cut down on the number of free checking accounts, the amount of free checking they were doing, that is a pretty tentative cause and effect that…

The CFPB has been absolutely a success.

The billions of dollars it may have cost banks, to imply that that was not passed on in large numbers to consumers is also a bit misleading.

The crisis revealed that Americans needed a Federal watchdog that would put their interests first.

These inconsistencies are not indicative of any widespread fraud by real-world enrollees.

I appreciate Senator Donnelly's bringing up his constituents who have been so wronged by greedy management.

I would just hope you would be more sensitive than your answers perhaps suggested.

Government is only as good as the people who are entrusted with positions of leadership.

I have been clear in my frustration with this Committee's failure to act on the many nominees for whom we are responsible.

Under the loophole, economics trumped human rights, and Senator Brown and I said that was absolutely, 100 percent wrong.

We do not have a single representative of American manufacturers on this panel.

This is about creating a system that is a fair system and that has a structure.

I would like to ask unanimous consent to insert into the record a timeline of the AFL's efforts to use state-to-state dispute settlement to respond to CAFTA labor violations in Guatemala.

Respect for labor rights is at the core of increasing jobs, raising wages and creating broadly shared prosperity.

If we are going to have this discussion, we should have it now, and it should be in the broad daylight.