WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement at a hearing on March 16, 2023, entitled "Local Views on Public Transportation, Transit Infrastructure and Operations, and Federal Transit Programs": * * * I am excited to hear today what public transit means to people in Cleveland, Ohio, in Greenville, South Carolina, and in Baltimore, Maryland. But before that, I want to say a few words about   more