“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.”

American politician, born 1952

Sherrod Brown is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, born in 1952. He has served in Ohio and on the national stage, including as a United States senator from Ohio from 2007 to 2025, and as senator-elect from the state. Before the Senate, Brown served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983, was Ohio secretary of state from 1983 to 1991, and represented Ohio’s 13th congressional district in the U.S. House from 1993 to 2007. His public career has largely centered on state and federal office.