Sherrod Brown

$1 billion in services trade can translate into 7,000 jobs.

There is strong support in this committee, bipartisan, for provisions both on fast-track and on our trade remedy laws to fight currency manipulation.

I join my colleagues in my disappointment about this hearing today.

You cannot fast-track fast-track. That is a complete abdication of our responsibilities.

The health care tax credit is incredibly important to have as part of this process.

It just begs the question of, what are you hiding?

Democrats will not accept massive cuts to TAA, nor will we tolerate separate consideration of TAA which will jeopardize its passage.

Dodd-Frank provided a common sense fix to the bad practices in mortgage lending that had been staring us in the face for years.

I am concerned by proposals that would tie the FSOC's hands.

FSOC is working. If anything, it is working too slowly.

American taxpayers paid the price in lost homes and jobs and billions of bailout dollars.

It is important we advance this conversation to ensure that prudential regulations for regional banks are crafted appropriately.

Most people agree that Senate drafters of Dodd-Frank set the threshold at $50 billion because they wanted to avoid creating the moral hazard associated with a market perception that an institution is too big to fail.

I generally believe it. Simplifying the larger banks so that they are no longer too big to regulate would also, I think it goes without saying, help agencies better allocate their resources.

Do you think that regulators, regional banks, and taxpayers would benefit from the proposal that I offered sometime ago, the Brown-Kaufman bill--Senator Shelby supported it as an amendment on the Senate floor; Governor Tarullo has spoken…

I appreciate the Chairman calling this hearing to examine the regulation of regional banks. It is an important topic.

Can you speak to the impact of Medicaid expansion on state economies?

I appreciate the good work of the Senator from Kansas. We have worked on, in the Banking Committee, a number of issues together, and I appreciate the work we have been able to do across party lines. So I thank the Senator for that…

It seems to me the Fed has cared about these issues for some time.

I very much appreciate your distinction between auditing--and I remember what Chair Yellen held up, the book of the audits of the Federal Reserve--and oversight, and I think you are dead on.

The Federal Reserve System was designed, as we know, to be accountable to Congress and to the American people, while maintaining the central bank's independence, all important functions.

I continue to have concerns about the slow pace of the recovery for most Americans.

Income inequality by some measures has reached its highest levels in perhaps nine decades.

Think about what Senator Whitehouse just said. A U.S. company that made an additive to gasoline filed suit against a public health law that the Canadian legislative body passed because they believed in clean air, and under NAFTA that…

Thank you for starting the new impatience rule with me, Mr. Chairman.