72 Facts About Senator Sherrod Brown

Sherrod Campbell Brown is an American politician and retired educator serving as the senior United States senator from Ohio, a seat which he has held since 2007.

Senator Sherrod Brown started his political career in 1975 as an Ohio state representative.

At the start of the 114th Congress in January 2015, Senator Sherrod Brown became the ranking Democratic member on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

In January 2021, Senator Sherrod Brown became chair of the committee and initiated an inquiry into the implosion of Archegos Capital Management, an investment firm that was accused of fraud and insider trading and lost billions of dollars.

Since then, Senator Sherrod Brown has been the only Democratic statewide elected official in Ohio, although some statewide-elected Ohio Supreme Court justices are members of the Democratic Party but elected in nonpartisan races.

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Senator Sherrod Brown became an Eagle Scout in 1967, and his badge was presented by John Glenn.

In 1974, Senator Sherrod Brown received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian studies from Yale University.

Senator Sherrod Brown went on to receive a Master of Arts degree in education and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Ohio State University at Columbus in 1979 and 1981, respectively.

Senator Sherrod Brown taught at the Mansfield branch campus of the Ohio State University from 1979 to 1981.

Senator Sherrod Brown served as a state representative in Ohio from 1974 to 1982.

In 1982 Brown ran for Ohio Secretary of State to succeed Anthony J Celebrezze Jr.

Senator Sherrod Brown won a four-way Democratic primary that included Dennis Kucinich, then defeated Republican Virgil Brown in the general election.

In 1992, Senator Sherrod Brown moved from Mansfield to Lorain, Ohio, and won a heavily contested Democratic primary for the open seat for Ohio's 13th district, in the western and southern suburbs of Cleveland, after eight-term incumbent Don Pease announced his retirement.

In 2005, Senator Sherrod Brown led the Democratic effort to block the Central American Free Trade Agreement.

For many months, Senator Sherrod Brown worked as whip on the issue, securing Democratic "nay" votes and seeking Republican allies.

Senator Sherrod Brown opposed an amendment to Ohio's constitution that banned same-sex marriage.

Senator Sherrod Brown was one of the few US Representatives to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.

Senator Sherrod Brown was the ranking minority member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee.

Senator Sherrod Brown served on the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.

Senator Sherrod Brown's announcement came shortly after Democrat Paul Hackett stated that he would soon announce his candidacy.

Senator Sherrod Brown ran for reelection in 2012, facing opponent Josh Mandel, who in 2010 had defeated the incumbent state treasurer by 14 points.

In 2018 Senator Sherrod Brown was reelected to a third Senate term, defeating Republican US Representative Jim Renacci by 6.

Staunch critic of free trade who has taken progressive stances on financial issues, Senator Sherrod Brown has said that the Democratic Party should place stronger emphasis on progressive populism.

In March 2018, Senator Sherrod Brown was appointed co-chair of the newly formed Joint Multiemployer Pension Solvency Committee.

On March 11,2020, the day the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Senator Sherrod Brown proposed a bill that would let workers immediately receive paid sick days, allowing them to stay home and self-quarantine if feeling sick or in the event of any public health emergency.

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Senator Sherrod Brown noted it could slow infection spread to coworkers and criticized Republicans for blocking the proposal, although he said he believed the House would pass similar legislation.

In January 2020, Senator Sherrod Brown called on his Senate colleagues to approve legislation that would improve the EPA's regulation of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

In February 2020, Senator Sherrod Brown and other Democrats in the house voted to block two pieces of anti-abortion legislation: the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

One of Bernie Sanders's closest allies in the US Senate, Senator Sherrod Brown nevertheless endorsed Hillary Clinton and campaigned for her in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary in Ohio.

Senator Sherrod Brown was vetted as a potential vice-presidential running mate for Clinton.

Senator Sherrod Brown had the distinct disadvantage that had Clinton won, Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich would have chosen Senator Sherrod Brown's replacement in the Senate, whereas Kaine's replacement would be chosen by Democrat and Clinton ally Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe.

In May 2017 Washington Monthly suggested that Senator Sherrod Brown could unite the establishment and progressive wings of the Democratic Party as a presidential candidate in 2020.

Senator Sherrod Brown opposed the Iraq War and voted against the Iraq Resolution as a House Representative.

Senator Sherrod Brown voted against the $87 billion war budgetary supplement.

Senator Sherrod Brown voted for redeploying US troops out of Iraq by March 2008.

Senator Sherrod Brown voted for the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008, which appropriated $250 billion for ongoing military operations and domestic programs.

In December 2010, Senator Sherrod Brown voted for the ratification of New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation obliging both countries to have no more than 1,550 strategic warheads and 700 launchers deployed during the next seven years, and providing for a continuation of on-site inspections that halted when START I expired the previous year.

Senator Sherrod Brown was a co-sponsor of reaffirmations of the Taiwan Relations Act and the Six Assurances in regards to United States-Taiwan relations.

In September 2016, in advance of UN Security Council resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Senator Sherrod Brown signed an AIPAC-sponsored letter urging President Obama to veto "one-sided" resolutions against Israel.

In February 2019, Senator Sherrod Brown voted against a controversial Israel Anti-Boycott Act initiated by Republicans that would allow states to prohibit government agencies from contracting with organizations involved in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

In October 2018, Senator Sherrod Brown condemned the genocide of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar and called for a stronger response to the crisis.

In November 2018, Brown joined Senators Chris Coons, Elizabeth Warren and a bipartisan group of lawmakers in sending the Trump administration a letter raising concerns about the People's Republic of China's undue influence on media outlets and academic institutions in the United States.

In January 2019, after Juan Guaido declared himself interim President of Venezuela, Senator Sherrod Brown said that the United States should "work with our allies and use economic, political and diplomatic leverage to help bring about free and fair elections, limit escalating tension, and ensure the safety of Americans on the ground", and called the Trump administration's suggestions of military intervention "reckless and irresponsible".

Senator Sherrod Brown was one of 67 members of Congress who voted against the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act.

Senator Sherrod Brown voted in favor of the 2012 NDAA that sparked controversy over indefinite detention of US citizens.

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In December 2015, Senator Sherrod Brown co-sponsored a bill in Congress that would restrict ISIS's financing by authorizing new sanctions on foreign financial institutions that knowingly facilitate financial transactions with ISIS.

Senator Sherrod Brown called for banning those on the no fly list from purchasing assault weapons.

Senator Sherrod Brown had argued the bill overwhelmingly benefited wealthy individuals and corporations with a much smaller impact to the middle class.

In 2012, Senator Sherrod Brown co-sponsored the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act, a bill that would prohibit the export of some electronics for environmental reasons.

Senator Sherrod Brown called the Republican legislature in Ohio "lunatics" for introducing a concealed carry bill that would allow individuals to carry guns into airplane terminals, police buildings, private airplanes, and day care facilities.

In 2009, Senator Sherrod Brown voted for the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Senator Sherrod Brown cast the 60th and final vote upon returning to Washington, DC, after his mother's funeral service.

Senator Sherrod Brown supported the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, voting for it in December 2009, and he voted for the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

In 2006, Senator Sherrod Brown co-sponsored the single-payer Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act.

Senator Sherrod Brown did not co-sponsor Senator Bernie Sanders's single-payer health plan, despite saying he has "always been supportive" of such a system.

Senator Sherrod Brown said he was supporting his own plan, which would allow people 55 and older to buy into Medicare.

In January 2019, Brown was one of six Democratic senators to introduce the American Miners Act of 2019, a bill that would amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to swap funds in excess of the amount needed to meet existing obligations under the Abandoned Mine Land fund to the 1974 Pension Plan as part of an effort to prevent its insolvency as a result of coal company bankruptcies and the 2008 financial crisis.

In September 2019, amid discussions to prevent a government shutdown, Brown was one of six Democratic senators to sign a letter to congressional leadership advocating the passage of legislation that would permanently fund health care and pension benefits for retired coal miners as "families in Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alabama, Colorado, North Dakota and New Mexico" would start to receive notifications of health care termination by the end of the following month.

In 2015, Senator Sherrod Brown introduced the Charter School Accountability Act of 2015, which would seek to curb "fraud, abuse, waste, mismanagement and misconduct" in charter schools.

In June 2019, Brown was one of ten senators to cosponsor the Safe Freight Act, a bill that would require freight trains to have one or more certified conductors and a certified engineer on board who can collaborate on how to protect the train and people living near the tracks.

Senator Sherrod Brown has criticized free trade with China and other countries.

Senator Sherrod Brown was the co-author and sponsor of a bill that would officially declare China a currency manipulator and require the Department of Commerce to impose countervailing duties on Chinese imports.

In May 2016, Senator Sherrod Brown called for tariffs to be imposed on imports from China and praised Hillary Clinton's plan to enforce rules and trade laws and triple the enforcement budgets at the United States Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission.

Senator Sherrod Brown opposes NAFTA, which he argues should be renegotiated to aid Ohio workers.

In January 2018, Senator Sherrod Brown expressed support for President Trump's decision to impose tariffs on washing machine imports.

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Senator Sherrod Brown supported his first trade agreement in 2019, after never having previously supported one while in Congress.

In 2012, Senator Sherrod Brown wrote a letter to the United States Department of Defense requesting that it comply with a rule requiring members of the military to wear clothes made in the US.

Senator Sherrod Brown was married to Larke Recchie from 1979 to 1987, and they had two children.

Senator Sherrod Brown resigned from her job in 2011, because being a politician's spouse presented a conflict of interest.

Senator Sherrod Brown's brother, Charlie, is a former West Virginia attorney general.

On May 5,2007, Senator Sherrod Brown was awarded an honorary doctorate from Capital University.

On May 18,2014, Senator Sherrod Brown was awarded an honorary doctor of public service degree from Otterbein University.