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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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Sep 27, 2020

So, when people like Trump game the system, somebody has got to pay for it, so other people can survive or it means cuts in our public health budget, cuts in our public education budget, cuts in highways and all -- clean water and all the…

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Sep 27, 2020

He just thinks -- he lives under no rules and the rest of us in the country live under rules that push back when you violate the rules and the norms, and this President doesn't think he has to.

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Sep 27, 2020

I think it is one more thing on top of Trump's disrespect for work, disrespect for members of the military, especially those who die.

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Sep 27, 2020

The most grading thing of all is staying on the Senate floor and to hear millionaire senators saying that's $600.00 a week. That's just too much.

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Sep 27, 2020

And Donald Trump deducted $70,000.00 for doing his hair, and that's just one of the injustices that I think really create on people that people work really hard on this country.

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Sep 27, 2020

It's not just Trump stealing -- essentially stealing money. It's also about who gets hurt, whom he is stealing it from and it's really from a bunch of middle-class and low-income people he's stealing it from.

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Sep 27, 2020

Nine percent is damn near one in ten Ohioans who would like to be working are not.

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Sep 23, 2020

the coronavirus has been the great revealer in our country. This crisis, of course, isn't happening in a vacuum. It is layered atop a system that already was not working for a whole lot of people and that had centuries of racism built into…

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Sep 22, 2020

I have my favorite Abraham Lincoln quotation. One day, he was in the White House with his family and his staff. His staff said: You have to stay in the White House and win the war and free the slaves and save the Union, and Lincoln said…

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Sep 16, 2020

it is pretty obvious that my Republican colleagues think that the Presiding Officer is going to lose her race and a number of incumbent Senators are going to lose their races and because it looks like there is going to be a Democratic…

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Sep 16, 2020

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sasse). The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

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Sep 10, 2020

I come to the floor to first thank Senator Duckworth for leading many of us to come to the floor this week to stand in solidarity with all of the military families around the country and throughout our Nation's history who have sacrificed…

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Sep 8, 2020

Mitch McConnell should be doing his job by bringing us together so we can do our jobs and meet the challenge of this virus and get this economy in a place that people can prosper again, and they have simply dropped their efforts since…

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Sep 8, 2020

If the CDC had been in charge and done the briefings and based on science and then the president of the United States, imagine if he'd worn a mask back in March and talked to the public as adults, tens and tens and tens of thousands of…

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Sep 8, 2020

Of course not. I like what you said about it. I like what Ben said, is it incompetence or is it malevolence? I don't know which it is. It's obviously both.

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Aug 26, 2020

Imagine, Joy, if Trump had worn a mask and talked about social distancing, and had the CDC doing this, doing the news conferences since March. There would be tens of thousands of Americans still living that wouldn't have been killed.

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Aug 26, 2020

Look at the convention this week. Look at their convention, all about Trump, nothing about accomplishments.

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Aug 26, 2020

I think that's clearly what he's trying to do.

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Aug 26, 2020

Looks like a South Dakota motorcycle rally. But it really is -- I mean, it's -- there's -- I mean, their whole convention this week has been nothing about accomplishment, and all about fear, trying to scare people about Joe Biden and…

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Aug 26, 2020

It's always about his ego. It's always about him.

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Aug 26, 2020

The president's ego or the prime minister's ego has not got in the way. They have had out front and center their version of the CDC or public health department talking to the public, modeling what kind of behavior we should have all do…

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Aug 26, 2020

their whole convention this week has been nothing about accomplishment, and all about fear, trying to scare people about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the Democrats.

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Aug 18, 2020

It is absolutely despicable that the president would call for a boycott of an American company based in Akron that employs thousands of U.S. workers.

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Aug 12, 2020

I don't think he would win Ohio, in large part, because Joe Biden and now his running mate, are increasingly understand that you campaign through the eyes of workers, you govern through the eyes of workers.

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Aug 12, 2020

He breaks all rules. He may have his - he may do his Convention acceptance speech at the White House. I mean he - the rules don't matter. Institutions don't matter.

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