U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)

Thursday, I visited East Palestine where a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials derailed leading to a large explosion and fire. I went to listen to the people that this disaster has hurt the most: the residents of East Palestine and the surrounding communities. I spoke with residents who are finally able to return home […]

This week, I visited the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and met with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, the Glenn leadership team and Ohio economic development leaders. We all agreed, there is no better place in the country to talk about new and emerging technologies than Ohio.  Ohio is always moving toward the next frontier. […]

This summer we passed the Heath Robinson Honoring Our PACT Act, named in honor of Ohioan Heath Robinson. It’s the most comprehensive expansion of benefits for veterans who faced toxic exposure in our country’s history. And we couldn’t have done it without veterans and their families.  I remember Susan Zeier, Heath Robinson’s mother-in-law, coming to […]

While the rest of us run from danger, firefighters and police officers and other first responders run toward it. That work often comes at a cost to their health. Ohio firefighters and other first responders wear their bodies out protecting our families and communities.  These public servants are often forced to retire early, before becoming […]

In Ohio, we’ve had too many cases of companies closing down and giving workers barely any notice that they’re losing their jobs.  Many workers find out with an email in their inboxes or a post on social media that they’ve lost their jobs and not to show up for work the next day. Workers deserve […]

Servicemembers put their lives and their health on the line to keep us safe. Even those who come home sometimes face long-term health risks from their service.  And too often, we have not gotten these veterans the care and the benefits that they earned and deserve – particularly those exposed to toxic substances while serving […]

It’s simple: If you put in the work, you should get paid for it. Yet hundreds of thousands of Ohio workers are cheated out of the paychecks they earned, year after year.  Companies and shady employers use all kinds of tricks to steal workers’ wages. They force them to work off the clock, they leave […]

No woman should have to choose between her job and a healthy pregnancy.  Yet as Ohioans celebrated Mother’s Day this week, too many mothers-to-be are forced to compromise their health or the health of their baby on the job. Three-quarters of women entering the workforce will be pregnant while employed at some point in their […]

The cost of prescription drugs is too high in this country. We know Ohioans are concerned about the cost of living right now, and some of the worst inflation we see, year after year, is drug prices. And often, the culprit is price gouging by big pharmaceutical corporations. It’s why I introduced the Affordable Medications […]

This month, I joined Senator Portman and leadership from Intel in Columbus to announce that 10,000 good-paying, advanced manufacturing jobs are coming to Ohio.  With this historic announcement, we are finally burying the term “rust belt.” For too long, we’ve had bad trade and tax policy that shipped manufacturing jobs abroad. And we’ve ended up […]