Sherrod Brown

We need to do more to retain and attract new manufacturing jobs, which is what Senator Blunt's and my legislation is all about.

The 'Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 2013,' sponsored by Senators Blunt and Brown, would authorize Commerce to award funds.

The approach in the Brown-Blunt bill is an important step in advancing this conversation.

The Brown-Blunt legislation would allow us to move forward in a smart and comprehensive way.

I'm pleased to see that you and your colleagues are considering actions to help implement one key recommendation of the AMP report.

People should pay their debts. I will be the first one to acknowledge that, and that is important.

I'm a father and small business owner. I began my business in 2009, decided to quit my day job. It's the best decision I ever made. I'm more successful today than I ever would have imagined. But no company would sell me health insurance.

Thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony on behalf the National Association of State Veterans Homes (NASVH) in support of S. 1540.

VVA supports fully the passage of S. 1556 because it strikes out against indefensible bureaucratic curmudgeonliness, and for employee justice.

This shameful fact led VA Secretary Shinseki to make ending homelessness amongst veterans by 2015 one of his highest priorities.

Far too many veterans submit claims for disability compensation themselves. The assistance they receive from a VA employee amounts, for the most part, to legal malfeasance if not malpractice.

S. 1295 would require the VA to notify veterans (or their representatives) that they may use a veteran service organization representative (VSO) for the claims process when filing an electronic claim.

Thank you very much. And to Senator Hatch and to especially the chairman, thanks for holding this hearing on this very important issue.

A choice that no one, absolutely no one should inflict upon our Government.

I appreciate Senator Heller saying that we need to do some of both, but first we need to pay our bills.

We could be on the brink of another one, this one self-inflicted.

We cannot risk a default.

I would add, it is interesting: Three of the great NASA facilities are represented on the floor now by Senator Cornyn from Texas, Senator Nelson, and me. It is not just NASA employees at NASA Glenn in Cleveland.

And if it means the bonuses are a little smaller and that dividends are a little less and the earnings reports of the banks are not quite up to what they were this quarter, which was a pretty lucrative quarter for them, that is a price we…

I urge you to hold fast on them when the megabanks fight to weaken those standards.

If these are the costs of a safer financial system, aren't they worth it?

Tomorrow at 10 a.m. there will be a rollcall vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the Hochberg nomination. ____________________

I thank the chairwoman of the agriculture committee for her work. This is legislation that saves taxpayers literally tens of billions of dollars while strengthening the safety net. The bill provides adequate revenue and nutrition for…

That is good news in terms of moving forward, good news in terms of setting a precedent in this agency.

Do agencies inform consumers that they can sue? Is this--that they cannot sue? Is that something that they do?