Sen. Sherrod Brown

State:: Ohio
Seniority:: Senior
Party:: Democrat

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
2007-2019	Senator, Ohio
1993-2006	Representative, Ohio's 13^th District

Track Him

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Sponsorship Analysis

Brown is a far-left Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship. Brown’s bills have had a total of 428 cosponsors in the 113^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Brown to other members of the Senate on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Sherrod Brown sits on the following committees:

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
- Member, Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
- Member, Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance
Senate Committee on Finance
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy
- Member, Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth
- Member, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Member, Subcommittee on Commodities, Markets, Trade and Risk Management
- Member, Subcommittee on Jobs, Rural Economic Growth and Energy Innovation
- Member, Subcommittee on Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Food and Agricultural Research
Senate Select Committee on Ethics
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs

Bills Sponsored

Some of Brown’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 2007 to Apr 2014, Brown missed 28 of 2,237 roll call votes, which is 1.3%. This is better than the median of 1.8% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2007 Jan-Mar	126	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Apr-Jun	112	7	6.3%	82^nd
2007 Jul-Sep	119	1	0.8%	25^th
2007 Oct-Dec	85	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Jan-Mar	85	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Apr-Jun	77	1	1.3%	26^th
2008 Jul-Sep	47	1	2.1%	35^th
2008 Oct-Dec	6	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	118	6	5.1%	93^rd
2009 Apr-Jun	96	1	1.0%	43^rd
2009 Jul-Sep	89	1	1.1%	58^th
2009 Oct-Dec	94	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Jan-Mar	108	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Apr-Jun	96	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Jul-Sep	44	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Nov-Dec	51	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Jan-Mar	46	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Apr-Jun	58	1	1.7%	28^th
2011 Jul-Sep	49	1	2.0%	50^th
2011 Oct-Dec	82	1	1.2%	41^st
2012 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Apr-Jun	109	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Nov-Dec	50	3	6.0%	75^th
2013 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	92	1	1.1%	55^th
2013 Apr-Jun	76	2	2.6%	55^th
2013 Jul-Sep	43	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Oct-Dec	80	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Jan-Mar	93	1	1.1%	46^th
2014 Apr-Apr	14	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

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

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
GPO Member Guide for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Bill Text

S. 2236: Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resistance Act

This bill’s text is now available.

Apr 17, 2014 9:46 p.m.

Bill Text

S.Res. 418: A resolution to honor Gallaudet University, a premier institution of higher education for deaf and hard of hearing people in the United States, on the occasion of its 150th anniversary and to recognize the impact of the University on higher ed

This resolution’s text is now available.

Apr 11, 2014 3:08 a.m.

Vote

On the Motion for Attendance PN1182: Michelle T. Friedland, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit

Motion for Attendance Agreed to 55/37

Sen. Brown [D-OH]: Yea

Apr 10, 2014 3 p.m.

Vote

On the Cloture Motion PN1182: Michelle T. Friedland, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit

Cloture Motion Agreed to 56/41

Sen. Brown [D-OH]: Yea

Apr 10, 2014 10:32 a.m.

Introduced

S. 2236: Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resistance Act

Sponsor: Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]

This bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions which will consider it before sending it to the Senate floor for consideration.

Apr 10, 2014