Sherrod Brown Quotes
The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.
Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.
Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.
The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.
Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.
It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.
I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.
Clinton is someone who understands trade, who understands we want more of it, but we want it under a different set of rules.
I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.
Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
Donald Trump talks a good game on trade, but he's never lived it. He's lined his pockets by outsourcing jobs to low-wage countries, and now he's talking about trade as if he actually means it?
The Ohio Legislature's passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow concealed weapons in the statehouse.
We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.
Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.
It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.
The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.