Senator Sherrod Brown
2015 Recipient of the Visionary Leadership Award
ILRF is honoring Senator Sherrod Brown for his visionary leadership and collaboration on leveraging trade policy to advance workers’ rights.
Since January of 2007, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown – a champion of middle-class families in the Senate – has been described as “Congress’ leading proponent of American manufacturing.” Brown is working with the Obama Administration on the creation of a national manufacturing policy that would invest in manufacturing innovation, strengthen our component supply chain, connect workers with emerging industries, and align our trade policies to promote our national interests. He is also working with Ohio’s universities, entrepreneurs, and community stakeholders to use Ohio’s resources to create new jobs in high-growth industries and make Ohio a national leader in clean energy manufacturing.
A long-time advocate for fair trade, Senator Brown has stood up to presidents of both parties on shortsighted trade agreements that ship U.S. jobs overseas. He led the bipartisan opposition to NAFTA in 1993 – as a freshman in the U.S. House of Representatives – and to CAFTA in 2005. Informed by his faith as a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), Sherrod Brown is committed to social and economic justice. He helped pass the historic health care law that will make health insurance more affordable and accessible for American families.
Brown serves on the Senate Committee on Finance. He also serves on the Senate Banking Committee, where he played an instrumental role in passing the historic Wall Street reform law, and is Chairman of its Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee. Brown is also the first Ohio Senator in 40 years to serve on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, where he has been instrumental in strengthening the farm safety net and addressing childhood hunger. He serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Jobs, Rural Economic Growth and Energy Innovation.
For more information on the Senator Brown, please visit: www.brown.senate.gov