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Today in Ohio, in the middle of America, the middle class won
Brown defeats DeWine in Ohio Senate race Nov 08, 2006
The president carries a credibility gap on Medicare, on Iraq, on the budget deficit, and on the economy. The problem is that George Bush refuses to focus on the working families struggling to make ends meet in Ohio and across America
Ohio Dems blast Bush on job losses Mar 24, 2004
Our interest is for seniors with prescriptions to be able to go to Canada
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You do your job, and you do your political things you need to do for five years, and you're ready
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Some Wall Street people have said the longer they can delay this, the more chance they can kill it
Reid plans to go ahead with reform vote Apr 25, 2010
Sherrod Campbell Brown (born November 9, 1952) is the senior United States Senator from Ohio and a member of the Democratic Party. Before his election to the U.S. Senate, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 13th congressional district from 1993 to 2007. He previously served as Ohio Secretary of State (1983–1991) and a member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1974–1982).
Brown defeated two-term Republican incumbent Mike DeWine in the 2006 U.S. Senate election. In the U.S. Senate, he is chairman of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Hunger, Nutrition and Family Farms and the Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy, and is also a member of the Committee on Appropriations, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and Select Committee on Ethics.
Brown was born in Mansfield, Ohio to Emily Campbell and Charles Gailey Brown, M.D. He was named after his maternal grandfather. He became an Eagle Scout in 1967. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian studies from Yale University in 1974. At Yale, he was in Davenport College, the same residential college as U.S. Presidents George H. W. and George W. Bush. He went on to receive a Master of Public Administration degree and a Master of Arts degree in education from the Ohio State University in Columbus in 1979 and 1981, respectively. He taught at the Mansfield branch campus of The Ohio State University from 1979 to 1981.