Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order, following the remarks of Senator Cantwell. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The…
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.
When we let corporations run the economy, workers and their families always, always pay the price--whether it's for the greed of Norfolk Southern or Silicon Valley Bank, or Big Pharma or Big Oil.
I heard directly from Ohio farmers seeking assurance that they can safely plant and sell their cattle and their crops.
Whose side are you on? Do you stand with corporate lobbyists or do you stand with communities like East Palestine?
The railroad lobbyists continued just aggressively to lobby this body and to lobby the regulators, and they succeeded in weakening standards for communities and for workers and for railroad safety.
I hope my colleagues will put partisanship aside, as Senator Vance and I are doing on rail safety, to stand with the people we serve.
Thank you. On that I spoke to a number--on your recommendation really--of small businesses in Ohio that were worried about making payroll.
This debt prioritization sounds like another version of Senator Scott's privatization of Medicare and Social Security.
I wish my colleagues were as interested in tax cheating among billionaires as they are low-income people, but I guess that is just the way politics in 2023 seems to work.





