What is Senator Sherrod Brown’s net worth?
OHIO democrat Sherrod Brown, 69, has served in public office since 1975.
Although Brown is a Senior U.S. Senator today, his start was in the local office, and he was recruited to run for Ohio state house during his senior year of college and has not looked back since.
What is Sherrod Brown worth?
According to , which tracks public officials, Brown is worth an estimated $263thousand.
This ranks him roughly 73rd in the Senate.
By comparison, the of Senate members is just over $1.6million.
For Brown, a lifelong political career does not appear to be that lucrative.
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Does Brown think Senators should be able to trade stocks?
In 2022, there have been cries for members of Congress to cease trading stocks due to it being an inherent conflict of interest.
However, many people wonder where Brown, who serves on the Senate Banking Committee, come down on this issue.
According to , in February 2022, Brown stated in an interview, “Too many members of the Senate trade in stocks, and their spouses too."
He went on to say, “I don’t accuse anybody individually of a conflict of interest and in betraying the public interest. But the temptation — if you own shares of stock, everything looks like a conflict of interest because we vote on everything in the Senate. We vote on banking rules. We vote on environmental rules. We vote on labor rules. We vote on minimum wages sometimes, so there are all kinds of conflicts.”
What is Senator Brown's background?
Brown graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Russian studies in 1974.
He went on to receive an M.P.A from Ohio State University.
His earliest experience in the office was serving as a state representative in Ohio from 1974 to 1982.
Brown's second wife, Connie Schulz, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist.
The couple has two children together, and Brown is also a grandfather of five.
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