Sen. Sherrod Brown

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2020 Report Card for Brown.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Brown is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Brown has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 7, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Sherrod Brown sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Chair
  Economic Policy, Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection, Housing, Transportation, and Community Development, National Security and International Trade and Finance, Securities, Insurance, and Investment subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Finance
  • Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy subcommittee Chair

  International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness, Taxation and IRS Oversight subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
  Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade, Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources, Rural Development and Energy subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs

Enacted Legislation

Brown was the primary sponsor of 28 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• S. 2049: Trafficking Survivors Housing Act of 2021
• S. 1817: Bridge Investment Act of 2021
• S. 1303: Build America, Buy America Act
• S. 4870 (116th): A bill to rename the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.
• S. 3049 (116th): Laboratory Access for Beneficiaries Act
• S. 2803 (116th): Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act of 2019
• S. 2619 (116th): Healthy Start Reauthorization Act of 2019

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Does 28 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Brown sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (39%) Taxation (14%) Labor and Employment (9%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (8%) Education (7%) Social Welfare (7%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Brown recently introduced the following legislation:

• S. 5189: A bill to address applications for deposit insurance submitted by industrial banks to …
• S. 5114: PREVENT Act of 2022
• S.Res. 819: A resolution affirming the commitment of the Senate to protect and expand the …
• S. 4847: Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act of 2022
• S. 4635: Comprehensive Care for Dual Eligible Individuals Act
• S. 4633: A bill to improve outcomes for Medicaid beneficiaries with major depressive disorder or …
• S. 4646: Faster Payments to Veterans’ Survivors Act of 2022

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2007 to Dec 2022, Brown missed 69 of 5,227 roll call votes, which is 1.3%. This is better than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills