WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on Dec. 6, 2023, entitled "Annual Oversight of Wall Street Firms": * * * This hearing will come to order. The eight bank CEOs appearing before us today lead the biggest global, systemically important banks in the United States. Your banks hold nearly $15 trillion in assets, manage trillions of dollars of investments and re  more