Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Campbell Brownis the senior United States Senator from Ohio, in office since January 3, 2007. Brown is a member of the Democratic Party. Before his election to the Senate, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 13th congressional district from 1993 to 2007. He previously served as the Ohio Secretary of Stateand as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 November 1952
CityMansfield, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.
This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.
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.
I've had primaries before, ... It makes me a stronger candidate.
I've said nothing negative about Paul Hackett. Let's just leave it at that.
This bill proposes a fix for a problem that simply doesn't exist.
That's why this election is so important. You really have to throw the money changers out of the temple.
People want a change because they want to see their government on the side of average Americans. Whether it's small business or gas prices, people think the government has betrayed their values.
since Congress passed President Bush's trade promotion authority three years ago, we have lost one-sixth of our manufacturing jobs.
It's past time for a plan to ensure that our mission in Iraq is a success and that our brave men and women in uniform can begin to come home soon.
Clearly, the number of dollars required in Medicaid, very stretched already, will increase. It would be amazingly callous, and to me, unconscionable if they insist on these Medicaid cuts.
In the last two and a half years, since George Bush became president, our nation has hemorrhaged 2.5 million manufacturing jobs, ... Ten percent of our manufacturing jobs have disappeared. ... Good jobs in steel and auto and textiles.
Too much is at risk to stop the research before its potential is fully understood.
This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. America's seniors were an afterthought.