Congressman Sherrod Brown

This is a guest-post by Senator Sherrod Brown, the junior United States Senator from the state of Ohio. As I watch some of my colleagues attack the health reform bill from every angle, I wonder if they forget that health reform is about real people. More than 390 Ohioans lose health insurance each day. 1,000 Americans die each week due to lack of coverage. A woman with a history of breast cancer without insurance is 40 percent more likely to...  

This is a guest-post by Senator Sherrod Brown, the junior United States Senator from the state of Ohio. As I watch some of my colleagues attack the health reform bill from every angle, I wonder if they forget that health reform is about real people. More than 390 Ohioans lose health insurance each day. 1,000 Americans die each week due to lack of coverage. A woman with a history of breast cancer without insurance is 40 percent more likely to...  

Despite carving out a niche for himself as a leading progressive voice in Congress, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) rarely goes in for headline-grabbing proclamations or sharp political rhetoric. So on Sunday, when Brown stated his concern that some of the president's economic consultants were too focused on Wall Street at the cost of small business, it hardly seemed like some flippant remark. "I think the president is [focused on Main...  

DOWNLOADS: (6) PLAYS: (21) Sherrod Brown explains to David Shuster why he signed decided to co-sponsor Tom Coburn and David Vitter's amendment which...  

I’m having one hell of a rotten month, so this game we’ve been playing with the Brunner campaign is supremely ill-timed.  But I’m gonna take something positive from it.  WARNING – inside blog drama below. It was almost exactly four years ago that I and other bloggers reported – that’s right, reported – on another US [...]  

SHERROD BROWN CALLS GOP'S BLUFF.... Watching the Senate debate health care reform this week has been pretty frustrating. We've seen enough obstructionism, lying, and grandstanding to last quite a while, and the chamber is just getting started. But for all...  

To the Editor: The proposed health care bill is important to all of us, especially senior citizens. The Democrat's health bill will cut Medicare by $460 billion. Last Thursday, Senator John McCain submitted an amendment to remove the Medicare cuts from the legislation. Sherrod Brown voted no. So Sherrod Brown supports taking money away from 40 million seniors who have paid into Medicare all their working lives to pay for approximately 12...  

I have some simple questions for Senators Brown, Rockefeller, and Wyden. You Senators say that the latest version of the Health Care Bill, stripped as it is of a Public Option or Medicare Buy-In, is still worth supporting. What is the mechanism to ...  

It seems like a long shot, but Buckeye Staters who want this country to be saved from statist health care ought to pursue it any way. After spending 25 minutes on hold waiting to talk to someone at Sherrod Brown’s Washington Office, I was told that the Senator has not decided on whether to support the [...]  

DOWNLOADS: (5) PLAYS: (17) In between Ben Nelson's hackery which John is going to tackle here, Sherrod Brown on State of the Union did a nice job of...  

Ezra Klein interviewed Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown, a liberal senator who backs a strong public option and is thus pleased with Harry Reid's move yesterday. He suggests that Reid felt more pressure from liberals than from moderates, and he believes that while some moderate Dems may vote against final passage, he really can't picture any Democrat voting against brining the bill to the floor (thus passing the cloture vote in Brown's...  

We have learned that Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans soon to introduce legislation to eliminate the tax deduction for certain food advertising directed to children. This comes on top of the legislation introduced on October 8th by Senators Al Franken (D-MN), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to disallow the deduction for DTC prescription drug advertising and promotion expenses.  

Matthew Yglesias, Think ProgressEzra Klein hails the people he regards as the heroes of health reform:So let this serve as an encomium to Ron Wyden, Tom Harkin, Chuck Schumer, Sherrod Brown, Chris Dodd and Jay Rockefeller, among many others. All of these senators could have been the 60th vote. All of them had issues they believe in and worked for. Chris Dodd built and passed a bill. Sherrod Brown whipped up liberal support for the public...  

Local GOP snubs dewine in attorney general bidMiddletown JournalHe was a two-term Republican senator until he lost to Democrat Sherrod Brown in 2006. But his long legislative record didn't do dewine any favors, ...and more »  

Sen. Sherrod Brown does NOT pull any punches once he gets started, and this time he beat up on poor ole Shooter something awful. First Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) put up a lame defense for another 5 years of Afghanistan, but at least he was kind enough ...