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Latest Fact-Checks On Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 18, 2012 in a news release:
"More than one in five of veterans aged 20 to 24 can’t find a job to support their family or to ease the transition to civilian life."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • January 23, 2012
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on December 7, 2011 in a Senate banking subcommittee hearing:
Richard Cordray’s nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau marks the first time in Senate history "that a political party has blocked a nomination of someone because they didn't like the construction of the agency."
True
By Stephen Koff • December 12, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on October 12, 2011 in a news conference:
"We buy 35 percent of all Chinese exports."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • October 20, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on August 4, 2011 in an appearance on MSNBC:
"Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies."
True
By Tom Feran • August 29, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on August 2, 2011 in a television interview:
Says that Wall Street hedge fund managers "pay a lower tax rate than does a sheet metal worker in Parma or a school teacher in Cleveland."
True
By Tom Feran • August 22, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on June 20, 2011 in a campaign fund-raising letter:
There is a Republican "plan to end Medicare."
False
By Stephen Koff • June 27, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on May 10, 2011 in a fundraising letter:
"Eighty-seven percent of private insurance plans currently include (abortion) coverage."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • May 16, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on May 10, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC:
About two-thirds of Medicaid beneficiaries are children, but they account for one-third of the program’s cost, while one-third are elderly, and they account for two-thirds of the cost.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 14, 2011 in a Senate committee hearing:
"Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall."
True
By Tom Feran • April 25, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on March 7, 2011:
The "House-passed budget proposal could cut funding for programs that help keep local neighborhoods safe, slash more than $1.7 million in anti-terror funds for Ohio."
True
By Stephen Koff • March 30, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 19, 2011 in a telephone news conference:
Says that Republicans "bragged about how every bill was going to be paid for, right from the beginning" and that the first vote, the repeal of health care reform, violated that rule.
Mostly True
By James Ewinger • March 16, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on March 3, 2011 in a speech in the Senate:
"Hitler didn't want unions. Stalin didn't want unions. Mubarak didn't want independent unions. These autocrats in history don't want independent unions."
True
By Tom Feran • March 8, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 22, 2011 in a newspaper column:
"For every $10,000 invested in business incubators, up to nearly 70 local jobs are generated."
True
By James McCarty • March 3, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 11, 2011 in an MSNBC interview:
Under federal law, Jared Loughner "would not have been able to buy a gun" had he been identified as mentally ill.
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • January 20, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on December 9, 2010 in a CNN interview:
The tax cut deal is giving "$700 billion to millionaires and billionaires."
False
By Stephen Koff • December 15, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on November 30, 2010 in an MSNBC interview :
"Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you’re working. You get help when you’re not."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • December 7, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on November 11, 2010 in a news release:
More than 10 years of free trade "has brought a $2 billion per day trade deficit."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • November 22, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on July 14, 2010 in an interview with Rachel Maddow :
Twenty-two million jobs were created during Clinton’s two terms but only 3 million during Bush’s.
True
By Stephen Koff • July 25, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 25, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
"Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 27, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 25, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
The financial services bill will end "too-big-to-fail."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2010
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