Sen. Sherrod Brown, Special to the Richland Source

I have spent my entire career fighting for a trade policy that puts Ohio workers first. Two days after last November’s election, I called the president-elect’s transition team and offered to work with them to make good on his campaign promise to renegotiate NAFTA. Over the past few weeks, I’ve held roundtables with workers across […]

It’s our duty to ensure that when the men and women in uniform who sacrifice so much for our nation return home, they and their families have the education and the training they’ve earned. The GI bill’s education benefits are critical to our returning servicemembers and their families. But veterans have a limited amount of […]

The opioid addiction epidemic takes far too many lives and destroys too many families across Ohio, and one of the biggest culprits of the deadly overdoses on the rise in our state is the drug fentanyl. This deadly synthetic opioid is fifty times stronger than heroin, and is often trafficked in from China through Mexico. […]

Far too many Americans face out-of-control surprise medical bills, often for emergency care, despite the fact that they spend their hard-earned money on health insurance to protect them.  Patients wake up from surgery, expecting to pay their standard co-pay, only to find out the anesthesiologist was out-of-network. A doctor sends a sample out for analysis, […]

Last week we sent a clear, bipartisan message to President Trump that we should strengthen – not weaken – Russian sanctions, and that Congress must have a say on Russia policy.  I joined a bipartisan group of colleagues, including Republican Senators John McCain, Marco Rubio, and Lindsay Graham, and Democrats Claire McCaskill and Ben Cardin, […]