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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.
America's workforce is facing immense challenges. Our country has lost 230,000 jobs in the first 3 months of 2008. Many of those jobs are in the Presiding Officer's State of Michigan and my State of Ohio. The national unemployment rate has…
our country has lost 230,000 jobs in just the first 3 months of this year. The unemployment rate has gone up to 5.1 percent. In Ohio, unemployment hovers around 6 percent. Women are also disproportionately at risk in the current…
there has been a lot of controversy in the last couple of weeks about the President's sending the Colombia so- called free trade agreement to the House of Representatives. Under this unusual law, there is something called fast track…
Today is tax day. People all across America are heading to the post office to get that all-important 'April 15' postmark. OK, not everybody waits until the last minute, but there are enough procrastinators among us that this is sort of a…
Yes, there is strong support. I appreciate the comments of the Senator from California. There is strong support for this bill, but not just in those groups. I had in my office building trades people from Mansfield, Lima, Cleveland, Dayton…
Mr. President, in a little more than 4 months, the world will witness one of its great quadrennial events: the Summer Olympic Games. The games have been billed as a way for China to reintroduce itself to the international community. China…
this weekend the Department of Defense confirmed the death of SSG Keith ``Matt'' Maupin, an American patriot from Batavia, OH, near Cincinnati, who bravely served our Nation in Iraq. Sergeant Maupin had been listed as missing and captured…
for months and months almost every newspaper in the country has been filled with stories of the tremendous toll the housing crisis has taken on communities across our Nation. My State set an unenviable record for foreclosures last…
Whereas the number of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (hereafter ``HIV/AIDS'') cases among American Indian and Alaska Native communities has been increasing at an alarming rate and poses a significant…
around this time last year, we heard the news story of Deamonte Driver. He was a 12-year-old living in Prince George's County, MD, a short driving distance from this building. Deamonte had a toothache. His family was poor and they didn't…
last Sunday marked the 1-year anniversary of a tragic bus crash outside Atlanta, GA, which was transporting members of the Bluffton University baseball team from my State of Ohio to play baseball in Florida. The crash took the lives of…
housing is on the minds of so many Ohioans these days, as it is on people's minds across the country. My State has the unfortunate distinction of leading the Nation in the percentage of property in foreclosure. Every day, 200 Ohio families…
This past week, President Bush submitted to Congress his last budget for the Federal Government. It is a revealing document that pretty clearly demonstrates the priorities of this administration. It used to be that budgets were designed to…
99 years ago today, a group of courageous individuals came together to form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The year of 1909 was the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. Fewer than 50 years removed from…
98 years ago today, William Dickson Boyce created one of this country's longest standing and most important community organizations--the Boy Scouts of America. Today, we join Scouting groups across the country and Ohio--Toledo and…
My home State of Ohio is deep into a foreclosure crisis. Gas prices are going up, and all energy prices and transportation costs are going up. More Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, hand to mouth, some not even that lucky…
Yesterday I met American heroes--dozens and dozens of American heroes--citizen soldiers who had returned from service in Iraq. Out of Brooklyn, OH, High School near Cleveland, 81 soldiers in the 256th Combat Support Hospital were honored…
Absolutely. I remember back in the early 1990s, we were concerned about the twin deficits, the trade deficit and the budget deficit. We had a budget deficit then of about $300 billion a year and a trade deficit, as the Presiding Officer…
Last night we heard a vision that the President of the United States was standing in the Chamber of the House of Representatives speaking to all of us. He talked about how best to proceed during times of clear economic crisis, job loss…
When I hear Senator Dorgan talk about this, I think about 20 years from now, 15 years from now. We are going to look back on this time, and we will think: What were they thinking when they changed the laws to allow so many cheap imports…
The economic house in our country is not in order. The United States may be entering its first recession since 2001--since the beginning of the Bush Presidency. It is pretty clear in my State of Ohio, from places I visited in January, from…
Wall Street and international markets are clearly concerned or worse over a possible U.S. recession. Congress is formulating, as we know--the President, both parties' leadership, the Members of the House and Senate--an economic stimulus…
These were trips paid for by the toy industry, the industry now under scrutiny for cutting corners, cutting corners that earn big profits for industry CEOs and send toxic toys into our children's bedrooms.
There's Sherrod Brown of Ohio doing 55 push-ups. He lost a bet on the college football championship game with his colleague from Florida, Bill Nelson.
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