Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, delivered the following opening statement at today’s hearing entitled “21st Century Communities: Expanding Opportunity Through Infrastructure Investments."Sen. Brown’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, follow:We are... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, urged Acting Comptroller Michael Hsu to review charters granted to several cryptocurrency exchanges by the Trump Administration. In his letter, he highlighted the risk of granting charters to non-banks and the need to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, released the following statement after President Biden announced the appointment of Terry Cosby to be Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Brown was a strong advocate for Cosby’s appointment during the U.S. Department of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, advanced two nominations: Ms. Adrianne Todman, of the Virgin Islands, to be Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); and Ms. Nuria Fernandez, of California, to be Administrator of the Federal... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Bob Casey (D-PA), Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, introduced legislation to help make public transportation systems more accessible to passengers with disabilities. The... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) hosted a news conference call as he leads bipartisan legislation with Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) to require states to report data on all child abuse-related deaths and develop recommendations to prevent child abuse deaths from occurring in the first place. Brown’s bill follows high-profile child... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) sent a letter to Department of Commerce (Commerce) Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai, to offer their support to the administration in hopes of working with USTR and Commerce to provide new trade remedy tools that... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced a bipartisan resolution to recognize specially trained volunteers who advocate in courtrooms and other settings on behalf of child survivors of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. The CASA Volunteer’s Day Resolution would honor Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, issued the following statement regarding the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) announcement that it will reconsider the Trump Administration’s Community Reinvestment Act rule, finalized in June... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has said he pays a lower percentage of his income in taxes than his secretary.  As millions of Americans filed their taxes yesterday, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced legislation to fix this problem.  The Paying a Fair Share Act would ensure... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has awarded a total of $96,758,492 to the Ohio State Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to help Ohio communities grappling with mental... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, delivered the following opening statement at today’s hearing entitled “Reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program, Part I.”Sen. Brown’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, follow:This hearing is the beginning... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) applauded President Biden’s announcement that monthly Child Tax Credit (CTC) checks of up to $300 per child will be on their way to families starting July 15, 2021. These checks are part of the expanded CTC program, which Brown helped secure in the American Rescue Plan.“The expansion of the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In Case You Missed It, a WKSU story today highlighted the first two cases filed under the Brown-Wyden Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). U.S. Sens. Brown (D-OH) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) fought for and successfully secured this important worker-empowering provision as part of the... Read More

Download Production Quality Video HEREWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), during National Police Week, took to the Senate Floor this week to honor fallen officers and recommit to securing critical resources and providing support for law enforcement in Ohio and their families. Police Week is an annual event honoring law enforcement... Read More

Download Production-Quality Video to Full Exchange HereWASHINGTON, D.C. – In Case You Missed It: During a U.S. Senate Committee on Finance hearing yesterday, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) asked U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai about her decision to implement the first ever self-initiated labor enforcement case under the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Joe Manchin (D-WV), introduced tax reform legislation to close the carried interest tax loophole that benefits wealthy money managers on Wall Street. Currently, the carried interest loophole allows investment managers to pay the lower 20 percent long-term capital gains... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, on International Nurses Day, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) led his colleagues, Sens. Alex Padilla (D-CA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ed Markey (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), in reintroducing the Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act. Nurses have been on the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Rob Portman (R-OH), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) applauded the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for passing their bipartisan BuyAmerican.gov Act, legislation that will establish a centralized online hub to increase... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) today announced that their bipartisan legislation – the Build America, Buy America Act – to apply Buy America rules to all taxpayer-funded infrastructure and public works projects, has passed the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. It will be part of... Read More