Word: sherrod
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...cover in the past. Ultimately, it means an annual income redistribution of $200 billion to help the working poor pay for insurance, which is why Republicans oppose the bill. But Jacob Hacker, the leading promoter of the public option, favors it. Every Democratic Senator, including those like Ohio's Sherrod Brown who have impeccable liberal records, favors...
...Senator Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democrat who authored the COBRA Subsidy Extension and Enhancement Act with Pennsylvania's Senator Bob Casey, also a Democrat, says the legislation will help the "many middle class families struggling to get by." Workers who were involuntarily terminated from their jobs between September 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2009 are eligible for the subsidy that helps individuals and families continue on employer-sponsored health insurance. The new legislation, part of the $636.3 billion fiscal year 2010 defense spending bill, extends the subsidy from nine to 15 months and opens the program to workers who will...
...looking more and more doubtful. Speaking from his experience of watching the slow death of his health care bill, Clinton told the Senators they must get one to Obama's desk by the State of the Union address in January at the latest, according to one participant, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. (See 10 players in health care reform...
...sort out. Whereas the traditional pharmaceutical industry is concentrated in just a couple of states, biotech firms have sprung up just about anywhere you find a university with a research hospital, which gives them a broad political base. "I know that vote hurt me at home," says Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, who led the unsuccessful fight against the 12-year exclusivity in the Senate HELP Committee...
...spending 88% of its stimulus money on new additions. Then there is the sheer scale of the challenge. In many of these same states, the biggest concern is not the type of stimulus spending but the amount of it. "Of course it's not creating enough jobs," Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, says of the stimulus. "We're not going to have enough [jobs] because we lost so many." (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession -- and after...