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Progressive Democrat and conservative Republican team up against ‘too big to fail’ banks
Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and David Vitter (R-LA) on Thursday denounced “too big to fail” financial institutions and vowed to push legislation to break up the “megabanks.” “Today, our economy is being threatened by multi-trillion dollar financial institutions,” Brown said on the Senate floor. “Wall Street megabanks that are so…
Sen. Sherrod Brown: GOP cocoon is impenetrable to objective facts
Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio said Tuesday on the Bill Press Show that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate were fed misinformation. Despite claims that the race was neck-and-neck, Brown noted that President Barack Obama became the second Democratic president to receive more than 50 percent of…
WATCH: Sherrod Brown sort of dances to Jay-Z
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D) danced along during a Jay-Z performance at a campaign rally on Monday, the penultimate day of the 2012 elections, in a move that will likely have no impact on the outcome of Brown’s reelection race but that will leave many people amused nonetheless. In a…
Ohio GOP senatorial candidate repeatedly ducks auto bailout question
The Republican aiming to unseat Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) repeatedly dodged a newspaper editorial board’s questions regarding the federal bailout of the auto industry, according to video released Tuesday. The Youngstown Vindicator reported that state Treasurer Josh Mandel (R) got into the contentious exchange when the board asked him…
VOTE: Which conservative site tried to slam Connie Schultz for ‘hugging’ Sen. Sherrod Brown?
Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer prize-winning former columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, received an odd email last week from a self-identified conservative blogger. According to her public Facebook page, it read: We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned…
Top Dems push for probe of big banks over Libor rate scandal
One of the largest financial scandals in history is playing out right now in London, but most Americans haven’t even heard about it thanks to the story’s near total absence from U.S. television news. But now, a collection of the Democratic Party’s most influential elected officials are pushing for a…
Sen. Sherrod Brown: Progressive groups can’t compete with billionaires
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who has been targeted by the advocacy group co-founded by Karl Rove, on Tuesday decried the nation’s flimsy campaign finance laws. “It’s bad enough that billionaires and huge corporations — that have already too much power in our government, in Congress, the executive branch far too…
Sherrod Brown: Ohio vote on collective bargaining is ‘a big deal’
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Sunday to discuss a referendum being held in Ohio that if successful would overturn a law curbing collective bargaining for all public workers. Senate Bill 5, which was promoted by Ohio’s Republican governor John Kashich and passed by the Republican-dominated legislature,…
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