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 398 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 Mar 2014, Brown missed 28 of 2,190 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	60	1	1.7%	52^nd