Sherrod Brown, Senator for Ohio

Brown is the senior senator from Ohio and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 4, 2007. Brown is next up for reelection in 2018.

He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 13^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1993 to 2006.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 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 liberal–conservative 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. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Human Rights Campaign: 100% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 100% League of Conservation Voters: 93% NIAC Action: A American Civil Liberties Union: 88% United States Chamber of Commerce: 33% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: D NumbersUSA: 15% Americans for Prosperity: 3% FreedomWorks: 0% The Club for Growth: 0%

Committee Membership

Sherrod Brown sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Economic Policy
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment
Senate Committee on Finance
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy
- Member, Subcommittee on Health Care
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Member, Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade
- Member, Subcommittee on Nutrition, Agricultural Research, and Specialty Crops
- Member, Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs

Enacted Legislation

Brown was the primary sponsor of 13 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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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 about one third or more 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 (30%) Taxation (26%) Armed Forces and National Security (13%) Labor and Employment (7%) Environmental Protection (6%) Finance and Financial Sector (6%) Government Operations and Politics (5%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (5%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Brown’s Vote	Vote Description
Yea	On the Nomination PN31: Ryan Zinke, of Montana, to be Secretary of the Interior Mar 1, 2017. Nomination Confirmed 68/31. Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) was President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as Secretary of the Interior. This vote by the Senate confirmed the nomination. Zinke, a first-term congressman elected in 2014 who resigned from Congress immediately following the vote so that he could hold another ...
Yea	On the Nomination PN32: Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., of Florida, to be Secretary of Commerce Feb 27, 2017. Nomination Confirmed 72/27.
Yea	H.R. 5325: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2017 Sep 28, 2016. Bill Passed 72/26.
Yea	S. 764: Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 Jul 7, 2016. Motion Agreed to 63/30. This bill was the vehicle for passage of the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act, which is the form it was enacted it. Prior to amendments, the bill regarded defunding Planned Parenthood and the National Sea Grant College Program. As enacted, the bill created national ...
Yea	H.R. 22: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act Dec 3, 2015. Conference Report Agreed to 83/16. H.R 22, formerly the Hire More Heroes Act, has become the Senate’s vehicle for passage of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act or DRIVE Act (S. 1647). The DRIVE Act is a major bipartisan transportation bill that would authorize funding ...
Nay	H.R. 5771 (113th): Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 Dec 16, 2014. Bill Passed 76/16.
Nay	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 18, 2014. Joint Resolution Passed 78/22.
Nay	H.R. 514 (112th): FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 Feb 15, 2011. Bill Passed 86/12.
Yea	H.R. 4853 (111th): Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 Dec 15, 2010. Motion Agreed to 81/19. The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (Pub.L. 111–312, H.R. 4853, 124 Stat. 3296, enacted December 17, 2010), also known as the 2010 Tax Relief Act, was passed by the United States Congress on December 16, 2010, and signed into ...
Yea	On the Nomination PN177: Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., in the Army, to be General Feb 8, 2007. Nomination Confirmed 83/14.

Missed Votes

From Jan 2007 to Apr 2018, Brown missed 45 of 3,402 roll call votes, which is 1.3%. This is on par with the median of 1.4% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2007 Jan-Mar	126	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Apr-Jun	112	7	6.3%	88^th
2007 Jul-Sep	119	1	0.8%	24^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%	31^st
2008 Jul-Sep	47	1	2.1%	40^th
2008 Oct-Dec	6	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	118	6	5.1%	96^th
2009 Apr-Jun	96	1	1.0%	45^th
2009 Jul-Sep	89	1	1.1%	56^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%	30^th
2011 Jul-Sep	49	1	2.0%	48^th
2011 Oct-Dec	82	1	1.2%	45^th
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%	80^th
2013 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	92	1	1.1%	62^nd
2013 Apr-Jun	76	2	2.6%	59^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%	49^th
2014 Apr-Jun	123	2	1.6%	43^rd
2014 Jul-Sep	54	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Nov-Dec	96	4	4.2%	78^th
2015 Jan-Mar	135	4	3.0%	87^th
2015 Apr-Jun	85	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Jul-Sep	52	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Oct-Dec	67	2	3.0%	75^th
2016 Jan-Mar	38	1	2.6%	45^th
2016 Apr-Jun	79	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Jul-Sep	34	4	11.8%	83^rd
2016 Nov-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	101	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Apr-Jun	54	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jul-Sep	53	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Oct-Dec	117	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Apr-Apr	16	0	0.0%	0^th

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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

Sherrod Brown is pronounced:

SHE-rud // brown

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
B b	bat
D d	day
E e	bed
H h	hat
N n	not
OW ow	cow
R r	rag
S s	sit
U u	cup

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

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