Honorable Sherrod Brown
United States Senator, Ohio, Democrat
Senator Brown was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1974 to 1982 and from 1992 to 2006, and as Ohio Secretary of State from 1982 to 1990. He sits on the following committees: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, where he is the Ranking Minority Member; Finance; and Veterans’ Affairs. The following is from the October 24, 2017, Senate floor debate on H.J. Res. 111, disapproving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule relating to arbitration agreements. What Congress is trying to do today, this evening, as…