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Ohio Manufacturers Association Reports Regulations Will Increase Energy Costs & Kill Jobs   Recently, the National Economic Research Associates released a study that found unelected bureaucrats at the EPA are creating burdensome emissions regulations that could kill over 53,000 jobs in Ohio and increase electricity rates by 13 percent. 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. Earlier today, an editorial from the Ohio Manufacturers Association appeared in the Columbus Dispatch outlining the effects of these burdensome regulations from the EPA. Unfortunately, the U.S. Environmental Agency is in the process of implementing a number of costly emission-control regulations that threaten to upset that delicate balance — putting jobs at risk and driving up the…

Brown-Backed Senate Majority Leader Thinks ‘Private Sector Jobs Have Been Doing Just Fine,’ ‘Says Government Jobs Must Take Priority’ In a speech on the Senate floor this morning — which would appear to exemplify the disconnect between some in Washington versus small businesses in the real world — Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid explained why Senate Democrats are seeking to pass yet another $425 billion stimulus.   According to Reid, “It’s very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine” and that’s why Democrats are focusing on growing more government jobs with this legislation. Remarkably, Reid’s out-of-touch statement comes on the same day a new Labor Department report was released showing that for the first time, Washington D.C. – with its plethora of government jobs – has surpassed Silicon Valley as the wealthiest metropolitan area in the entire country. Given that Senator Sherrod Brown was one of the first…

Just 24 hours after telling an audience in Pennsylvania yesterday that he wished those who oppose President Obama’s latest stimulus proposal knew “what it was like” to be raped and robbed, while acknowledging that this was all a campaign-driven effort by the Administration, Vice-President Joe Biden will lead a rally with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill today in support of their latest spending proposal. It remains to be seen whether the Vice-President will repeat his view on the Tea Party that labor unions “are the only one keeping the barbarians at the gate,” or his economic theory that the only way for the federal government to prevent bankruptcy is to spend more money, but Biden’s presence serves as a reminder to voters in Ohio of what both he and Senator Sherrod Brown promised after ramming through their first $825 billion stimulus more than two years ago. “It’s fitting that Vice-President…

Once Again, Ignores Concerns Of Ohio Small Business Owners Just days after a bipartisan coalition representing over 1.8 million small businesses in Ohio, and across the country, made clear in no uncertain terms that it would further harm their ability to create and grow jobs, Senator Sherrod Brown ignored the concerns of job creators and voted in favor of President Obama’s latest stimulus proposal today, which included a massive tax hike on Ohio business owners. As President Obama’s own Treasury Department acknowledges, four out of five people who would be hit by the Brown-Obama surtax are business owners – the same people we need to create new jobs.  Fortunately, the latest Brown-Obama stimulus proposal was defeated in a bipartisan vote this evening with two Democrats joining every Senate Republican in opposing it. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, but…

In what Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill called a “shocking development” last night, liberal U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and his Senate Democrat bosses rashly used what is known as the “nuclear option” to suddenly kill a key Senate rule that protects the democratic rights of the minority party. Politico reports that the power grab “threatens to further inflame partisan tensions and stymie legislative action,” while the Atlantic notes that it “may fundamentally diminish the powers of the minority party in the Senate,” and that “both liberals and conservatives are troubled by what may come of it.” “Last night’s vote is further proof that Sherrod Brown is willing to recklessly put his Washington Democrat bosses’ narrow partisan agenda ahead of the best interests of Ohio and the nation,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox.  “It’s bad enough that Brown is the most liberal Senator in the country who…

Obama’s So-Called Jobs Bill Has No Co-Sponsors, But Brown Supports It Over three weeks ago, President Barack Obama sent his second stimulus the American Jobs Act (S. 1549) to Congress, but since that time not a single Democrat in the Senate has bothered to co-sponsor the bill. Some Democrats have referred to the President’s second stimulus as “terrible,” and others have expressed their reservations about whether the bill will actually create jobs, but there is still one person who remains solidly in President Obama’s corner and that is liberal United States Senator Sherrod Brown, who happened to be one of the first supporters of the legislation. “The President outlined a plan that will create and protect jobs and ensure that Ohio workers take home more of their pay. There are no excuses for inaction, as all components of his plan have had bipartisan support and will not add to the…

Obama & DNC Took Thousands Of Dollars In Contributions From Execs At Scandal-Plagued Stimulus Recipient Firm As President Barack Obama and Sherrod Brown call for yet another round of costly so-called “stimulus” spending in Washington, reports continue to emerge that Obama and Brown’s original $787 billion stimulus debacle not only failed to create the 133,000 Ohio jobs they promised, but stimulus money was sent to benefit well-connected Democrat donors. As ABC News reported earlier this year: Several of Barack Obama’s top campaign supporters went from soliciting political contributions to working from within the Energy Department as it showered billions in taxpayer-backed stimulus money on alternative energy firms, ABC News and iWatch News have learned. One of them was Steven J. Spinner, a high-tech consultant and energy investor who raised at least $500,000 for the candidate. He became one of Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s key loan program advisors while his wife’s…

Instead Money Was Given To Tax Cheats And A Failed Green Energy Company Yesterday, President Barack Obama went to the Brent Spence Bridge to campaign for his second stimulus.  As the President noted in his speech, he picked this particular bridge to send a partisan message to Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell. What the President failed to remember was that liberal United States Senator Sherrod Brown – who votes with him over 96 percent of the time – promised that the original $825 billion stimulus would be spent to repair the Brent Spence Bridge. MUST WATCH FLASHBACK Click On The Screenshot To Hear Sherrod Brown Claim That The First Stimulus Would Help Repair The Brent Spence Bridge “The first $825 billion stimulus – which Sherrod Brown rubberstamped into law – was a failure, because instead of working to repair the Brent Spence Bridge, billions of dollars were given out to…

Blocks Bill To Replenish FEMA & Avert Government Shutdown, Then Skips Town With thousands of Americans across the country desperately needing disaster relief funds in the wake of devastating hurricanes, tornados, floods, wildfires and earthquakes, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) stood behind his liberal party leadership in Washington today and blocked a bill that includes $3.7 billion in immediate disaster relief assistance, while averting a government shutdown next week. The bill was blocked despite acknowledgments from these very same Democrat leaders that FEMA “could run out of money as soon as Monday.”  Yet, what’s more, instead of staying in Washington and working through the weekend to address this very serious problem, Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid announced there will be no more votes in the Senate until Monday. “Once again, Sherrod Brown had a choice to make today – to stand behind Harry Reid and her fellow liberals in Washington,…