Buckeye State Is Home To Over 1,900 Medical Device Companies Who Employ 22,000 Ohioans Earlier this month, Tony Dennis the CEO of BioOhio penned a column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer where he expressed his frustrations with President Obama and Senator Sherrod Brown for passing a $2.5 trillion government-run healthcare bill that is partially financed by a 2.3 percent tax increase on medical device companies, because it thwarts innovation and job growth. What’s remarkable is that Sherrod Brown told his party boss Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) that the medical device tax in ObamaCare would kill jobs in Ohio, yet he still voted for it. POLITICO: “In a preview of a major fight to come, 10 Democratic senators [including Sherrod Brown] — a mix of liberals and moderates — are protesting an annual $4 billion tax on the medical device industry as a killer of jobs and research. They…
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Deficit Super Committee Dies Amid Sherrod Brown’s Addiction To Higher Taxes & More Spending
Senate Democrats Sought $1.3 Trillion In New Tax Hikes & $300 Billion In New Stimulus Spending, Instead of Serious Spending Cut Proposals In response to this evening’s announcement by the deficit reduction Super Committee that they were unable to reach any bipartisan agreement, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) said the failure of leadership by Senate Democrats, and their addiction to higher taxes and more wasteful Washington spending, will be a defining issue in next year’s U.S. Senate campaign in Ohio. “After years of reckless government spending, unemployment mired at 9 percent and a $15 trillion debt that grows daily, the negotiations of the last few weeks have been a remarkable commentary on the misplaced priorities of Sherrod Brown and his fellow liberal Democrats. “Voters should rightfully wonder why Senator Brown and his fellow Democrats didn’t show the same zeal for actually solving our nation’s problems as they did for…
NRSC Statement On Sherrod Brown’s Latest Fiscal Legacy – A $15 Trillion Debt
Republicans Release New Video Highlighting Brown’s Reckless Spending Agenda WASHINGTON — When Sherrod Brown first came to Washington in January 1993, the federal debt stood at $4.2 trillion. 18 years later, and particularly over the last three years, as Sherrod Brown has rubber-stamped every major spending initiative proposed by President Obama, the federal debt has now hit the once-unfathomable mark of $15 trillion – a 257 percent increase and more than $48,000 for every American man, woman and child. To mark the United States Treasury reaching the $15 trillion debt mark today and to highlight the massive spending by Senator Brown and President Obama that has led to this point, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) released a new web video – “$15,000,000,000,000…Siriously” “As a candidate for the Senate in 2006, Sherrod Brown talked about the importance of fiscal responsibility, but since coming to the Senate he and his fellow…
As U.S. Supreme Court Prepares To Weigh In, Ohioans Reminded Of Sherrod Brown’s Vote For ObamaCare
Top Court To Examine Obama-Brown ‘Individual Mandate’ As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on President Barack Obama and Senator Sherrod Brown massive health care overhaul, Ohio voters are reminded that Sherrod Brown cast a deciding vote to ram the measure, known as ObamaCare, into law. This news comes just days after Ohio voters soundly rejected the individual mandate by over 30 points. The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear arguments next March over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul – a case that could shake the political landscape just as voters are about to decide if Obama deserves another term. The decision to hear arguments in the spring allows plenty of time for a decision in late June, just over four months before Election Day. This sets up an election-year showdown over the White House’s main domestic policy achievement. The justices announced…
Ohio Sharply Rebukes Barack Obama & Sherrod Brown For Their Job-Killing Healthcare Law
Yesterday Over 2.2 Million Ohioans Voiced Their Displeasure With ObamaCare Yesterday, Ohioans went to the ballot box and expressed their deep frustration with President Barack Obama and Senator Sherrod Brown’s $2.5 trillion government-run healthcare law that forces every Ohioan to purchase health insurance by supporting Ohio Health Care Amendment Issue 3. Senator Brown was a strong proponent of President Obama’s government-run healthcare initiative and even voted, separately and specifically, to keep the individual mandate in the healthcare bill, because he said it was the way to implement ObamaCare. Brown Voted To Kill An Amendment That Would Have Removed The Individual Mandate From The Health Care Bill. “Baucus, D-Mont., motion to table (kill) the Ensign, R-Nev. amendment no. 3710 that would repeal provisions of the 2010 health care overhaul law that provide for IRS penalties for certain taxpayers that do not obtain basic health insurance coverage.” (H.R. 4872, CQ Vote #101:…
Once Again, Sherrod Brown Stands Behind Obama Spending Agenda, Instead of Standing With Ohio Job Creators
Votes For Yet Another Massive Stimulus Bill, Despite Opposition From Major Small Business Groups Even as virtually every major small business group expressed their concern that a new, permanent tax on America’s job creators would “significantly impair” job creation, Senator Sherrod Brown – America’s most liberal Senator – once again voted in lockstep with President Obama today in support of yet another round of massive government stimulus spending. “Sherrod Brown has never met one of President Obama’s big government spending bills that he didn’t like, and today’s vote is just another example of his reckless spending record,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox said today. “It also represents a defining difference in next year’s election – Sherrod Brown believes it’s the federal government which creates jobs, through higher taxes and more debt, while Republicans believe government should get its foot off the backs of America’s small businesses so…
Under the Obama-Brown Economy, Toledo Becomes The Poverty Capital Of America
Shortly after Barack Obama became President, liberal United States Senator Sherrod Brown quickly locked arms with him and became one of the fiercest supporters of his $825 billion stimulus. Brown went to the airways to tell Ohioans that the stimulus would help repair the Brent Spence Bridge – which it never did, nor will it in Obama’s second stimulus – and even sent out a press release claiming the stimulus would create 133,000 jobs but since this massive spending experiment became law, Ohio has lost over 94,000 jobs. To add further pain the City of Toledo has now been declared the poverty capital of the country. As the Toledo Blade reports: The concentration of poor people living in Toledo’s poorest neighborhoods grew by more than 15 percent in the past decade, giving the metropolitan area the unenviable distinction of No. 1 among American’s largest metro areas. More than 46,000 people…
After Claiming The First $825 Billion Stimulus Would Help Repair The Brent Spence Bridge, Sherrod Brown Wants A Mulligan
In 2009, liberal United States Senator Sherrod Brown told Ohioans that he would be supporting Barack Obama’s $825 billion stimulus, because it was a “jobs” bill that would help repair America’s aging roads and bridges, including the Brent Spence Bridge. After the bill passed the House of Representatives it was revealed that only 5 percent of the so-called stimulus was spent on infrastructure. It was then revealed that billions of dollars were given to tax cheats and millions of dollars were spent in fictitious congressional districts like a $660,000 project in Ohio’s 99th Congressional District. Now that it’s been widely accepted that the first stimulus was a boondoggle that never repaired the Brent Spence Bridge, let alone ‘saved or created’ 133,000 Ohio jobs, Sherrod Brown – America’s most liberal senator – wants a do-over as Democrats in the Senate will be voting on a $50 billion infrastructure stimulus later…
All-Time Low: Obama-Brown Health Care Overhaul More Unpopular Than Ever…
More Bad News For Brown As ObamaCare Approval Hits An All-Time Low As ultra-liberal Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown struggles to defend his decision to vote in favor of ObamaCare, this month’s Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll shows that both Brown and President Obama have even greater reason to fear Ohio voters at the polls next year: their 2,700 page, $2.5 trillion health care law is less popular than ever. The poll’s summary and toplines show a bleak picture for Brown, Obama, and their fellow Washington Democrats: Overall favorability of the law stands at 34%, an all-time low; The percentage of very favorable support stands at 12%, an all-time low; The percentage of respondents who think they personally will be better off due to the law stands at a mere 18%, an all-time low; The percentage of respondents who think the country as a whole will be better off due…
Are The Democrat Super Committee Members Going To Cave To Sherrod Brown’s Demand To Raise Taxes?
Senate Democrats Seek $1.3 Trillion New Tax Hikes & $300 Billion In New Stimulus Spending, Instead of Serious Spending Cut Proposals In August, Congress created the bipartisan Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, otherwise known as the “Super Committee,” with a mandate of trimming government borrowing by at least $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. At the time, liberal United States Senator Sherrod Brown started a petition expressing his desire that the new Super Committee would force Ohio’s job creators to share in the sacrifice. Over the last 24 hours, however, voters in Ohio have started to get a better idea of what exactly Senator Brown and his fellow liberal Democrats in Congress meant by that. Late yesterday, Senate Democrats leaked their current proposal to numerous media outlets, and its highlights include $1.3 trillion in new tax hikes, as well as upwards of $300 billion in new “stimulus” spending…
