WASHINGTON, D.C. – Now that former President Donald Trump is out of office, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is using his chairmanship of the U.S. Senate committee that oversees the banking system to overturn regulations the Trump administration passed in its waning days that he views as anti-consumer. On Thursday, Brown joined a Democratic colleague on […]
The pandemic and a set of other economic and social forces changed the calculation for Democrats when it comes to government aid. The question now is how long the moment will last. WASHINGTON — A quarter-century ago, a Democratic president celebrated “the end of welfare as we know it,” challenging the poor to exercise “independence” […]
Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown is strongly in favor of rolling back the Trump tax cuts for corporations — despite warnings from the business community that it could disrupt the economic recovery. “It was a giveaway to corporate interests and the richest people in the country,” Brown, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, told CNN […]
The far-right elite grows its movement best in the fertile soil of economic inequality. Out of the ashes of Jan. 6, a new president and new majorities in Congress have three historic charges — defeat the pandemic, build back our economy, and repair the damage done to our democratic way of life. Americans saw — in […]
More than a million workers and retirees across the country are part of the multi-employer pension system, and many are in danger of losing that secure retirement. For years, I’ve pushed leaders of both parties to fix this and save America’s pensions, and today we are closer than ever to a solution. If the system […]
As we work to defeat and recover from this pandemic, we must avoid the mistakes of past economic recoveries, and build back better for all families, in all communities. In Ohio, we remember how after the last economic crisis in 2008 and 2009, the biggest corporations and the biggest cities on the coasts and in […]
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown once again called out his colleagues in the U.S. Senate on Thursday for not wearing face masks – this time a senator from a neighboring state. During debate over a budget resolution, Brown briefly interrupted proceedings. “… I would like to ask Senator Paul, in front of everybody, to start […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was back in October, when the results of the 2020 election were not yet known, that Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) told Spectrum News this during an interview outside his home in Cleveland. “I want to be chairman of the banking and housing committee. I want to devote the rest of my career to […]
WASHINGTON, D. C. – Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown on Tuesday pledged to shift the focus of the U.S. Senate’s banking committee from legislating in Wall Street’s interests to taking on the corporate business model that treats workers as expendable and helping workers and their families. “When work has dignity, Wall Street doesn’t get to […]
