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If there was any remaining doubt that Sherrod Brown’s record is to the far left of most Ohioans, new rankings out today from National Journal should lay that to rest.      For the past three decades, National Journal has rated members of Congress based on selected roll-call votes from the previous year to create an ideological scale for Congress.  And once again, Sherrod Brown’s voting record has placed him among the most liberal members of the United States Senate, tying him in fact with far-left California Senator Barbara Boxer. Notably, PolitiFact Ohio recently reported that for the three years that Barack Obama has been in the White House, Brown has voted with him a whopping 95 percent of the time.       “It once again speaks volumes of just how far out of step Sherrod Brown is with most Ohioans when he’s battling with San Francisco’s Barbara Boxer for…

NRSC Launches New Video Highlighting The Failed Promises & Economic Agenda Of Washington Democrats Three years ago today, despite an already skyrocketing federal debt, President Barack Obama with the help of liberal U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown rammed their $825 billion stimulus spending bill into law promising Americans that it would create millions of news jobs In fact, Brown specifically promised the stimulus would ‘create or save’ 142,000 Ohio jobs, but since the legislation was signed into law, Ohio has lost over 81,000 jobs because the Obama Administration was determined to spend their way out of this economic crisis instead of targeting the legislation to assist small business owners who are the true job creators of this country. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO Notably, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report just yesterday that found that the rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent…

Obama-Brown Budget Promises More Of The Same Failed Economic Policies Despite repeated promises by President Barack Obama and liberal Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown to cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama’s first term in office, the President today submitted a budget to Congress which projects an even higher federal deficit than last year, while marking the fourth straight year of trillion-dollar-plus deficits.  In fact, in just three years, Democrats in Washington have added $4.7 trillion to the national debt — bringing the total debt to over $15.3 trillion. In an effort to deflect himself from supporting Obama’s tax-and-spend policies into law, Brown recently told a Cleveland radio station that he doesn’t think passing a budget – which according to some Democrats is the most basic function of government – is all that meaningful.  This is a remarkable turn of events, given that exactly one year ago Brown…

Once Again Sherrod Brown Opted To Side With Big Labor Instead Of Ohio After 1,590 days and 23 short-term extensions, liberal United States Senator Sherrod Brown voted last night against a four-year funding bill for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which, according to the Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid, is expected to create 300,000 jobs. This is a remarkable development given that a year ago, Brown strongly supported a reauthorization of the FAA but decided that this time he would join his liberal friends in the Senate and oppose the legislation because Big Labor had some concerns with the bill. As the Associated Press reports: A bill to speed the nation’s switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology, and to open U.S. skies to unmanned drone flights within four years, received final congressional approval Monday.  The bill passed the Senate 75-20, despite labor opposition…

ObamaCare Levied A New Tax On The 1,900 Medical Device Companies In Ohio This past weekend, the Dayton Daily News reported that another Ohio-based medical device company is feeling the wrath of a looming tax increase that stems from Sherrod Brown’s $2.5 trillion job-killing healthcare bill. Mound Laser & Photonics Center, which is based near Dayton, has cited that ObamaCare’s medical device tax – a 2.3 percent tax that is estimated to kill 45,000 jobs nationwide – is hurting their company’s bottom line. What’s remarkable is that Sherrod Brown knew the tax was a job-killer for the medical device industry, yet he still voted for it. As the Dayton Daily News reports: Officials with Mound Laser & Photonics Center claim the uncertainty surrounding the federal health care overhaul and its excise tax on medical devices already is hurting their business … Dr. Larry Dosser, MLPC’s president and CEO, admits he…

It’s Been 1,000 Days Since Brown & His Democrat Colleagues Have Passed A Budget  It’s been 1,000 days since liberal United States Senator Sherrod Brown and his Democrat colleagues who control the Senate have passed a budget and today the National Republican Senatorial Committee has unveiled a new web video reminding Ohioans that Brown has failed to perform the most basic function of a U.S. Senator. Additionally, the web ad highlights the fact that during his bid for the U.S. Senate, Brown campaigned against the reckless spending in Washington and expressed a strong commitment to restoring fiscal discipline to our country, which he has failed to uphold. Notably, it only took 410 days to build the Empire State Building, yet Brown still needs more time to pass a budget that will rein in his reckless spending habits that are bankrupting our country. “It’s simply remarkable that it took less time…

Ohio Is Expected To Lose Over 53,000 Jobs Due To The EPA’s Job-Killing Regulations As the unelected bureaucrats who work in President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continue to create their job-killing regulations, earlier today it was reported that these burdensome rules will likely force at least one Ohio power plant to shut down – and likely several more in the months ahead – and put an untold number of Ohioans out of work. This is devastating news for families in Ohio and it’s worth noting that liberal U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown had an opportunity to rein in these job-killing regulations, but decided to vote against an amendment that would have stopped the EPA from implementing their job-killing regulations. As the Dayton Daily News reports: “Facing the prospect of having to shut down a coal-burning power plant that employs 50, Dayton Power & Light said it’s studying a plan to…

But Back In Washington Brown Has Been A Rubber Stamp For Obama’s Failed Agenda Today, President Barack Obama returns to Ohio, but one person missing from his entourage is Cleveland’s own Sherrod Brown, who has been a strong supporter of Obama’s tax-and-spend agenda. Brown began the Obama Presidency by supporting his failed $825 billion stimulus – which he promised would repair the Brent Spence Bridge down in Cincinnati – and was a fierce supporter of Obama’s $2.5 trillion healthcare bill. That’s not all, Brown, who once campaigned as a deficit hawk, broke his campaign promise for Obama’s massive spending spree by voting to increase the debt ceiling and he was literally one of the first supporters of his second $450 billion stimulus. “As President Obama travels to Cleveland, Ohioans will always remember that whether it was his support of the failed $825 billion stimulus or his crucial vote for ObamaCare,…

Last Thursday, a bipartisan group of Senators rejected Sherrod Brown’s payroll tax relief extension, because this temporary tax cut slapped a permanent tax hike on small business owners across the Buckeye State. Unfortunately, Brown remains stubbornly committed to raising taxes, because today he and his party offered a “revised” payroll tax cut extension, but again it hits Ohio’s job creators with a massive tax increase. This all comes on the heels of a letter from virtually every major business organization – including the Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Businesses – warning Brown and his Senate Democrat colleagues that any tax increase would adversely impact job growth. As the Associated Press reports: “A Democratic aide also says the Democrats’ revamped payroll tax cut plan will contain a modified set of proposals to offset its cost to the Treasury. It will retain a tax on income exceeding $1…

What You May Have Missed Last Night…. Despite warnings from virtually every major business organization in the country that it would adversely impact job growth, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) once again voted in lockstep with President Obama last night in support of a permanent new tax on Ohio job creators. “At a time when our country is still working to get our economy back on track, it speaks volumes about Sherrod Brown’s misplaced priorities that he would vote for a permanent new tax hike on Ohio’s job creators,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Brian Walsh said today.  “Just as with the $825 billion stimulus and the trillion dollar health care bill, Sherrod Brown would rather stand with President Obama, than stand up for Ohio.” The Senate last night voted on two separate proposals, both with the common goal of extending the payroll tax cut by one more year…