Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that President Trump has signed into law their bipartisan legislation to rename NASA’s Plum Brook Station, the agency’s test facility in Sandusky, Ohio, after Neil Armstrong. Portman and Brown introduced the legislation last year. Plum Brook is part of the... Read More

Download Production Quality Video HEREWASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) took to the Senate floor as he continues to call for a quick Senate vote on increasing direct payments to Ohioans struggling amid the COVID-19 pandemic from $600 to $2,000. The House passed legislation on Monday increasing the amount to $2,000, and the... Read More

Over the last year, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has worked to protect Ohioans’ health and safety and their economic security amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. He led efforts to get healthcare providers, essential workers and working families the resources they need as we all continue fighting to get the pandemic under control. And he helped... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is pushing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for answers on plans to consolidate staffing levels at the Chillicothe VA Medical Center (VAMC) and surrounding Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs). In a letter to VA Network Director RimaAnn O. Nelson, Brown requested detailed responses... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, sent a letter to Mr. Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury, urging him to listen to concerns from all stakeholders... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, the Senate passed a government funding bill that includes a number of investments U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) helped secure for Ohio water infrastructure projects as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (WRDA 2020). WRDA 2020 invests in key water infrastructure projects to be studied, planned and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) – ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs released the following readout after he met with Pete Buttigieg Nominee To Be Secretary of the Department of Transportation by President-elect Biden. If confirmed, Buttigieg would be the first LGBTQ Cabinet... Read More

Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Ed Markey (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), sent a letter to Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), seeking an investigation of the frenzied... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Representative Bill Johnson (R-OH) announced that the final FY 2021 bipartisan funding agreement includes their legislation to restore and protect the historic Joseph Barker Jr. House (Barker House) along the Ohio River in southern Washington County, Ohio.... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate passed a government funding measure that included key wins for Ohio secured by U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH). The package, which includes badly needed COVID-19 relief for Ohio, passed the Senate by a bipartisan margin of 92-6. The House also passed the package, which now heads to the President’s desk to be... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) – ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs announced that his bipartisan legislation, the Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act of 2019, was included in the omnibus. The legislation which Brown introduced with Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), Chairman... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) voted to pass the combined omnibus and COVID-19 relief bill that will send desperately needed assistance to Ohioans and small businesses, as well as our health care system in order to support vaccine procurement and distribution. For months, Brown has fought to put assistance directly in the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) – ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs today released the following statement on the newly announced  COVID-19 relief bill, which includes $25 billion rental and utility assistance for renters:“Finally families, small businesses, and communities will get... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, a recent Ohio Department of Health report covered by the Columbus Dispatch shows that, despite infant mortality rates falling for the third straight year, disparities in infant mortality between Black and white babies are widening. According to the report, Black infants are more than 2.8 times as likely to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last night, the Senate unanimously passed legislation co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) that will reauthorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) for another five years and increase authorized funding for the program from $300 million annually to $475 million annually by fiscal year 2026. The bill now... Read More

**VIDEO OF SENATE PASSAGE**WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate unanimously passed bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to help set up a voluntary, nationwide network of African American burial grounds and to provide federal assistance to ensure the burial sites are preserved and maintained for future generations.... Read More

Download Production Quality Video HEREWASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) took to the Senate floor blasting unwillingness from Senate colleagues to take swift action on behalf of more than a million American workers and retirees who are in danger of losing the pensions they’ve earned.“We will never give up until these... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Last Night, the Senate passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) to recognize the 25th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnian Serbs used concentration camps as a tool against Muslim men, women and children,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), along with U.S. Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH) applauded the Senate passage of bipartisan and bicameral legislation to name a Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Youngstown, Ohio after Major Carl Nunziato, a veteran of the U.S. Army.... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined members of both parties in following the advice of Capitol Attending Physician Dr. Brian Monahan, and received the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID19 Vaccine. He released the statement below:“The Attending Physician of the Capitol has recommended that all Members of Congress receive the COVID-19... Read More