Sherrod Brown News

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has threatened to sue credit reporting agencies if they don't fix problems that DeWine and some 20 other State AGs have uncovered in the course of their months-long investigation.

Ohio's U.S. senators and Cincinnati's House members have introduced legislation allowing the Delta Queen to go on overnight trips with passengers on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.

Tech fought hard for changes in the Senate immigration bill and largely won them.

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown says more than 360,000 students across Ohio would be forced to pay thousands more each year in college loan costs unless Congress acts to block the interest rate from doubling on federally-subsidized Stafford loans by July 1, 2013.

The U.S. Department of Justice appears to have neither conducted nor received any analyses that would show whether criminal charges against large financial institutions would harm the economy, potentially undermining a key DOJ argument for why the world's biggest banks have escaped indictment.

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown will hold a news conference call Wednesday regarding legislation to prevent a hike in interest rates for Stafford student loans.

This fall will mark the five-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy, sparking the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression.

In an email to constituents, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown wrote, "Republicans in the Ohio House have introduced multiple bills that would turn our state into a so-called Right-to-Work state -- one of the ugliest tricks in the right-wing playbook when it comes to attacking working men and women." Additionally, "Senate Bill 5 wasn't the extreme right's ... (more)

It's official: A Washington bureaucrat could stand amid 1,000 acres of tall corn and still not realize he was in the country.

State Rep. Connie Pillich, a Democrat from Montgomery, will declare her candidacy Monday for Ohio treasurer.

Members of the Senate and House are speaking out against proposed cuts in food aid that have been introduced in the Farm Bill legislation. Senator Sherrod Brown authored an amendment for the Senate discussion of the 2013 Farm Bill, which would provide much needed support to the nation's food banks.

Mary Knauff would like to start saving money, for retirement or for some future spending.

Last month, an unlikely pair of senators - Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, and David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican - introduced a non-binding resolution calling for the end of the implicit subsidies that "too big to fail" banks enjoy.

The nation's largest retail industry organization fired back Friday, outlining reasons why a legally binding global pact to make Bangladesh clothing factories safer would expose merchants to undue legal exposure.

I try not to write about things I don't know much about, and I'll be the first to admit I understand little about high finance.

The attorney for Ohio's largest tea party organization, the Ohio Liberty Council, says the organization will sue the Internal Revenue Service.

In the past three election cycles, the Center for Responsive Politics' database shows about $474,000 in political donations by individuals listing "IRS" or "Internal Revenue Service" as their employer.

There are three main approaches being taken by the enemies of large U.S. banks, and all of them are bad ideas.

Shares of the nation's second largest bank by total assets closed at $13.34 Tuesday, returning 15% this year, after more than doubling during 2012.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved an amendment to the Water Resources Development Act that could expedite funding for the Blanchard River flood-control project.