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Sherrod Brown

Sherrod Brown

Sherrod Brown is a Democrat who served as a U.S. Senator representing Ohio from 2007 to 2025. After losing his re-election bid in 2024 to GOP challenger Sen. Bernie Moreno, he announced plans to run again in 2026. He won his first elected office to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974. He later served as Ohio secretary of state and was elected to Congress in 1992. He first joined the U.S. Senate in 2007.

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Latest Fact-Checks By Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown
stated on July 1, 2026 in an X post:
Since the passage of the “Jon Husted-backed” HB 6, Ohioans’ residential utility rates have gone up $663 a year.
Half-True
By Gracey Abernethy • July 20, 2026
Sherrod Brown
stated on September 4, 2024 in a TV interview:
Of Bernie Moreno, “Now, he’s arguing for a national abortion ban, no exceptions.”
Half-True
By Caleb McCullough • September 19, 2024
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 8, 2021 in an interview with Ohio reporters:
Summer “protesters outside the White House were met with tear gas, rubber bullets, a full militarized response. While … rioters were able to breach the Capitol.”
True
By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2021
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 18, 2019 in an interview:
With the Trump tax law, “70 percent of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 percent.”  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 5, 2019
Sherrod Brown
stated on May 18, 2018 in a TV ad:
“Jim Renacci has been a lobbyist even while in Congress” and “voted to make it easier for lobbyists to hold key government positions and harder to investigate conflicts of interest.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 31, 2018
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 9, 2018 in a speech to the City Club of Cleveland:
“Right now in Ohio 200,000 people are getting opioid treatment because they have insurance under the Affordable Care Act.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 20, 2018
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 2, 2017 in a Senate floor speech:
Says ExxonMobil “fought to kill” a rule requiring oil and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments.
True
By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2017
Sherrod Brown
stated on July 28, 2016 in a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention:
Says Donald Trump “proposes tax cuts, too — $3 trillion for millionaires like himself and $2 trillion for corporations like his.”  
Mostly True
By Nadia Pflaum • August 1, 2016
Sherrod Brown
stated on July 27, 2016 in fundraising email:
“The Koch network (is) spending more money (in a Senate race) in Ohio than anywhere else in the country.”
True
By Nadia Pflaum • July 28, 2016
Sherrod Brown
stated on July 3, 2016 in an interview on ABC "This Week" :
Says Donald Trump made a lot of money from outsourcing jobs thanks to NAFTA “but never, ever raised his voice against it when Congress was considering it.”  
Mostly False
By Nadia Pflaum • July 8, 2016
Sherrod Brown
stated on June 12, 2013 in a conference call with reporters:
“Some of these members of the House of Representatives get hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm subsidies” but want to cut food stamps.
True
By Stephen Koff • June 18, 2013
Sherrod Brown
stated on March 4, 2013 in a news release:
Wall Street megabanks that received bailouts in 2009 now get taxpayer-funded advantages not available to community banks in Ohio.
Half-True
By Tom Feran • March 20, 2013
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 4, 2013 in a news release:
 “Three in four low-income workers don’t have any paid sick days available.”
True
By Tom Feran • February 11, 2013
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 1, 2013 in a news release:
Says the New Year’s Day “fiscal cliff” deal “reduces the deficit.”
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • January 31, 2013
Sherrod Brown
stated on October 16, 2012 in a debate:
“There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs.”
True
By Aaron Marshall • October 31, 2012
Sherrod Brown
stated on September 8, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
“While Mandel’s been busy traveling the country raising campaign money, he hasn’t shown up for work.”
Half-True
By Tom Feran • October 4, 2012
Sherrod Brown
stated on September 8, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
Josh Mandel “is lying about his own record. The rating of Ohio’s investment fund has NOT improved.”
False
By Tom Feran • September 26, 2012
Sherrod Brown
stated on July 19, 2012 in a news release:
“When Josh Mandel claims to have accepted three debates with Sen. Sherrod Brown, he is lying. He has accepted ZERO proposed debates.”
Pants on Fire!
By Henry J. Gomez • July 25, 2012
Sherrod Brown
stated on May 14, 2012 in an email campaign statement:
Says Josh Mandel opposed federal loans to the auto industry.
False
By Henry J. Gomez • May 18, 2012
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 15, 2012 in a news release:
Says the average Ohio student graduates from a four-year college or university with nearly $27,000 in tuition debt.
Half-True
By Tom Feran • May 7, 2012
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Latest Fact-Checks About Sherrod Brown

Bernie Moreno
stated on August 20, 2024 in a campaign ad:
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to “give illegals taxpayer funded stimulus checks, health care, even Social Security.”
False
By Seth A. Richardson • September 4, 2024
Jim Renacci
stated on July 10, 2018 in a press conference:
Says Sherrod Brown “votes 97 percent with Chuck Schumer, almost 95 plus percent with Elizabeth Warren.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 31, 2018
Ohio Republican Party
stated on June 12, 2018 in a tweet:
Says Sherrod Brown in 1978 “voted for stricter removal standards (for voter registration) and then enforced them as Secretary of State.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • June 29, 2018
Mike Gibbons
stated on February 20, 2018 in an interview:
“A lot” of Sen. Sherrod Brown’s policies “reflect that interest in Marxism” and a fondness for communism.
False
By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2018
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 4, 2013 in a news release:
 “Three in four low-income workers don’t have any paid sick days available.”
True
By Tom Feran • February 11, 2013
Josh Mandel
stated on October 2, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
Sherrod Brown “voted six times to raise his own pay.”
False
By Tom Feran • October 29, 2012
Crossroads GPS
stated on October 9, 2012 in a television ad:
“Sherrod Brown supported President Obama’s $453 billion tax increase.”
Mostly False
By Tom Feran • October 18, 2012
Josh Mandel
stated on October 2, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
Sherrod Brown “failed to pay his own taxes three separate times.”
True
By Tom Feran • October 17, 2012
Josh Mandel
stated on September 13, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
“We need a Senator who shows up to work. Sherrod Brown missed over 350 official votes.”
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • October 10, 2012
Josh Mandel
stated on September 4, 2012 in a campaign email:
Says  Sherrod Brown’s campaign attacked Josh Mandel’s military service
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • September 17, 2012
Josh Mandel
stated on May 23, 2012 in a television ad:
Sherrod Brown “sent billions of our tax dollars to foreign countries.”
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Feran • August 13, 2012
Ohio Republican Party
stated on July 10, 2012 in an emailed statement:
“Sherrod Brown and his special interest allies in Washington are plotting to spend over $13 million” to defeat Josh Mandel.
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • July 19, 2012
Josh Mandel
stated on July 9, 2012 in a fundraising email:
Sherrod Brown’s approval rating “has plummeted to 38 percent among Ohio voters” in a poll by a Democratic pollster.
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • July 13, 2012
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on April 4, 2012 in a news release:
Sen. Sherrod Brown’s vote helped pass “Barack Obama’s job-killing health care law, which slapped small businesses throughout Ohio with a $500 billion tax increase.”
Pants on Fire!
By Stephen Koff • April 12, 2012
Josh Mandel
stated on March 29, 2012 in a news release:
Sherrod Brown opposed blocking a new EPA emissions rule, “despite acknowledging that the EPA’s cap-and-trade regulations are ‘burdensome’ and could harm economic growth in Ohio.”
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • April 5, 2012
Josh Mandel
stated on March 1, 2012 in a news release:
“Make no mistake — Sherrod Brown is one of the main D.C. politicians responsible for Ohio jobs moving to China.”
Pants on Fire!
By Stephen Koff • March 20, 2012
Ohio Republican Party
stated on January 22, 2012 in an interview with The Plain Dealer:
Sherrod Brown “has voted with Barack Obama 95 percent of the time.”
True
By Stephen Koff • January 25, 2012
Josh Mandel
stated on December 2, 2011 in a newspaper column:
Sen. Sherrod Brown “has chosen to side with Washington bureaucrats and fringe extremists in the attacks on our natural resources.”
Pants on Fire!
By Stephen Koff • December 7, 2011
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on November 16, 2011 in a television commercial:
Says Sen. Sherrod Brown “voted to block American energy production and increase energy taxes.”
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • December 6, 2011
Josh Mandel
stated on November 14, 2011 in a radio interview:
Says that Sen. Sherrod Brown is “out there egging on a lot of these protesters who are spitting on policemen and going to the bathroom on policemen’s cars at these protests on Wall Street and other places.” 
Pants on Fire!
By Henry J. Gomez • November 18, 2011
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