Aug 26, 2026
All across Ohio, I hear from small business owners, farmers, and hardworking families who are getting crushed by reckless tariffs that Jon Husted supports.
Sherrod Brown
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Sherrod Campbell Brown is an American politician currently serving as the senior United States senator from Ohio, a position he has held since January 4, 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, Brown previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1993, to January 3, 2007. Throughout his career, he has been a strong advocate for workers' rights and has focused on issues such as healthcare, job creation, and economic equality. Brown has been known for his commitment to representing the interests of Ohio workers in the Senate.
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August 26, 2026
I’ve called for hard-working Ohioans to be refunded for the burden they’ve taken on due to the tariffs, while Husted has called for more money to go to corporations.
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by number of sources- March is National Eye Donor Month-- a month--to honor those who have restored sight to blind or vision- impaired Americans across the country. For the last 28 years, since National Eye Donor Month was first established in 1983, the eye donor community has raised public awareness about the need for eye donation. Every March for each of the past 28 years, our Nation has honored dedicated individuals who work tirelessly at hospitals, medical centers, doctors' offices, and eye banks across the country to educate the public on the need for cornea donations and work with the transplant teams. We continue to give thanks to eye donors--and their families--who offered one last remarkable gift because they had the foresight to become organ donors. Eye donation provides a precious second chance at clear vision for those with ocular diseases. Approximately 11.4 million Americans experience severe visual problems that are not correctable by glasses. A parent or grandparent cannot see their children or grandchildren play a little league game or walk across the stage at graduation. And many children experience momentous life events--and everyday happenings-- without the eyesight that many of us take for granted. Thankfully and miraculously, through eye donation and corneal transplants, vision that has been lost to disease or injury or infection can be restored.2 sources2011govinfo.gov
- we have seen this movie before. It was 4 years ago that a drug company in St. Louis raised the price dramatically on a drug that was administered to pregnant women, a shot they took once a week for 20 weeks that significantly reduced the incidents of low birth weight babies. Now we see a headline on the front page of the New York Times today which reads ``A Drug Company's Price Tactics Pinch Insurers and Consumers.'' Two weeks ago another New York Times headline read ``Drug Goes From $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight.'' In April the Wall Street Journal ran an article titled ``Pharmaceutical Companies Buy Rivals' Drugs, Then Jack Up the Prices.'' The reporters who did the investigating in these articles all found the same thing: Pharmaceutical companies buy up the rights of older existing drugs where all the costs from research have been recouped and raise prices dramatically overnight. In its most recent article, the Times investigated Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a company that recently raised the cost of the lifesaving drug Cuprimine more than fivefold. The Times interviewed Mr. Bruce Mannes, a 68-year-old retired carpenter in Michigan who has relied on Cuprimine for 55 years to treat his Wilson's disease. In May Mr. Mannes was paying $366 a month for Cuprimine. Today he is forced to pay $1,800 a month just to stay alive. It is the same drug and the same dosage. It was $366 a month not too long ago. Today it is $1,800 a month just to stay alive.…2 sources2015govinfo.gov
- I appreciate the words of the Senator from Nebraska, Mr. Sasse, with whom I enjoy serving on the banking committee, and I appreciate his good work. I take a bit of issue with his comments. I know there are more than two options. But I hear the greatest criticisms of the President from those same people, urging-- not necessarily Senator Sasse in this case, but many of the leaders in this body on the Republican side who were some of the strongest advocates for the war in Iraq. Some of those same people are saying, back into the Middle East, sending combat troops. Going back to war is something that the American people--we all come to the floor claiming to speak for the American people, perhaps, but we know that is not good policy and that is not what most people in this country want to do. But I appreciate the comments of the Senator.2 sources2015govinfo.gov
- I say to the Presiding Officer--and the Senator who is about to become the Presiding Officer--I appreciated the work of you two together, in tandem, today for two nominees in front of the Agriculture Committee. I thank you. (Mr. SASSE assumed the Chair.) Mr. President, I rise to talk for a moment about a hearing yesterday, which the Presiding Officer sat through, too, with the outgoing CEO of Equifax. We know what happened with Equifax, yet we really don't know entirely what happened. We know there was a breach of Equifax's information, and 145 million Americans--more than half of the adult population in our country--had their data breached. Criminals will now have access to the data of far too many Americans. I am hopeful because I and Senator Crapo, the chairman of the committee, and others on the committee were pretty unhappy--not to speak for others, certainly, but we were pretty unhappy with Equifax's performance yesterday because we didn't get a lot of answers to a number of our questions. When you think about what we do with medical language, with our personal medical information, we have laws to say that our personal medical information belongs to us. We, of course, can share it with a hospital or a doctor or whomever we want, but our doctor can't share it with other doctors without our permission. Our hospital can't share it with other hospitals without our permission. But our personal financial data doesn't fall into those categories.…2 sources2017govinfo.gov
- I rise in opposition to the motion. This is my second day in a row being on the opposite side of my friend Senator Moran and Senator Crapo, too, for that matter, but you have to do what you have to do. Over the last year and a half, as we have seen time after time after time, Republicans in this Congress have made it pretty clear to the American people whose side they are on. They have used the Congressional Review Act--something nobody at home really knows about and something most of us didn't know anything about until we began to see at the White House these executive retreats every weekend for Wall Street executives. They have used the Congressional Review Act more than any other Congress in history to give handouts to big corporations at the expense of ordinary Americans. It is not enough for Republican legislators to go to Senator McConnell's office down the hall and cut deals giving tax cuts to the richest people in the country and giving tax breaks to General Motors, which promised that if tax cuts were given to the largest corporations in America, they were going to raise wages and hire more people. Well, GM just announced--to its everlasting discredit--hundreds of layoffs at its Lordstown plant near Youngstown, OH. Hundreds and hundreds of people were laid off, perhaps permanently. We don't know, but the signs aren't good.…2 sources2018govinfo.gov
- 165 years ago, conservatives in this House of Representatives passed a rule banning the discussion and debate of slavery in the United States House of Representatives. In those days, former President, then Congressman, John Quincy Adams, trooped to the House floor night after night, week after week, protesting that the issues of slavery were not being debated, and he then shared letters from his constituents, many of them women who could not vote, so that Members of Congress and the American people would learn more about why he believed slavery should be abolished. In like manner today, Mr. Speaker, conservative leadership in this House of Representatives has not really allowed full debate on whether or not the Bush administration told us the truth on his reasons for taking us into Iraq; whether leaders in the Bush administration, all the way up and down, were actually leveling with the American people; whether and how the $87 billion the President has asked for should be spent, whether we should spend it. Questions and concerns about that $87 billion that the American people have raised are not being debated, and especially the concern that my constituents are expressing about the safety of our troops.2 sources2003govinfo.gov
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Aug 10, 2026
Ohioans shouldn’t be forced to subsidize these costs and Ohioans — not Jon Husted and his billionaire friends — should get to decide if data centers are built in their community.
Aug 9, 2026
I’ll require the data centers to pay the full cost of their own electricity — not you,"
Jun 5, 2026
Members of Congress and their spouses should be banned from trading stocks.
May 12, 2026
I am honored to stand with my CBC colleagues in this fight as we stand up for the people we represent. For decades, the far right has sold this country a lie, a lie that racism ended in 1965, a lie that discrimination is ancient history…
Apr 29, 2026
the Columbia Basin Project is a federally authorized project managed by the Bureau of Reclamation, part of the Department of the Interior. At its heart, is the Grand Coulee Dam, which has the primary purpose of supplying water for…
Apr 29, 2026
wildfires are a significant threat to rural communities, and I support efforts to bring down the cost of forest treatments that would help protect these communities. This amendment, though, just uses those rural communities as a prop in…
Apr 29, 2026
The NRCS currently includes composting facilities as a conservation practice standard, but assistance under this standard is limited to the construction of a structure to facilitate composting. This amendment proposes specifically to…
Apr 21, 2026
the convicted felon in the White House is not an honest man, but when he rebranded the Department of Defense as the Department of War, for once, for once, he told the truth because war is what we have. War is what he wants, and war is what…
Apr 14, 2026
I am very proud to see this legislation on the floor today, and I appreciate the support of both the ranking member and chair of the Oversight Committee. This bill is about recognition, recognition that is a long time coming, recognition…
Mar 25, 2026
more and more I am troubled by a simple question: Will Donald Trump be the last President ever elected by a free and fair election? That certainly seems to be the plan. In 2024, Donald Trump said: Get out and vote, just this time. You…
Feb 11, 2026
I rise during Black History Month to honor an extraordinary constituent, Mr. James R. Willis, a marine, an attorney, and a true Cleveland legend. In 1944, Mr. Willis joined the Montford Point Marines, one of nearly 20,000 Black men who…
Dec 15, 2025
I rise in support of H.R. 5457, the Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act. The SAMOSA Act is a straightforward, good-government bill that has strong bipartisan support from members of the Oversight Committee…
Dec 3, 2025
there is a saying: When America catches a cold, Black America gets pneumonia. Since January 20, make no mistake, this country has been running a fever, a moral sickness, one that begins at the very top, a twisted agenda that pardons the…
Nov 17, 2025
how do we know if this President is working for us? He is working for us if we make over $4 million and are about to pocket a new tax cut of $300,000. He is working for us if we attend Great Gatsby parties at his club or plan to sip…
Sep 2, 2025
I have just come back from our district work period in northeast Ohio, and let me tell you, Madam Speaker, there is nothing better than being home being in our churches, in our union halls, and our community centers listening to the people…
Aug 18, 2025
The decision was mine and Connie’s, and it was a hard decision, because I think I could do good work in either place.
Aug 18, 2025
I didn’t plan to run for office again, but when I see what’s going on, I know I can do something about it for Ohio.
Aug 18, 2025
But ultimately, because Ohio doesn’t have anybody in the Senate advocating for Ohio workers, I came down on that decision.
Aug 18, 2025
By any measure, this is the worst vote he’s cast in the Senate, but it’s a continuum of his running for special interests his whole career.
Aug 18, 2025
That's why I'm running for Senate, because even in these challenging times, I still believe if you stand up for workers, treat people with respect, and always fight for Ohio, you can actually make a difference.
Aug 18, 2025
I didn't plan to run for office again. But when I see what's going on, I know I can do something about it for Ohio.
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