All 24 donors for Sherrod Brown, with their interests

Donor interests

All 24 donors for Sherrod Brown, with their interests

2026 U.S. Senator from Ohio race · as of October 30, 2026

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What this is

These are the 24 donors in Sherrod Brown's donor-interest record for the 2026 U.S. Senator from Ohio race, largest filed amount first. Each one opens to what the donor does, what it lobbies for, and each of Sherrod Brown's stated positions that would change its money, in either direction, with the sources for both.

Every donor, largest first

By filed amount, ties by name; an amount reported, committed or refunded comes after every filed one. Each one opens to every position of the candidate's that would change its money, in either direction.

WinSenate (Senate Majority PAC affiliate) · $86.9M · 2 alignments
$86,907,173 as filed · super PAC · Out of state

A super PAC funded in 2025-26 by transfers from Senate Majority PAC: $21,120,000 in nine transfers through Aug. 31, 2026 ($20,000 June 4; $4,100,000 in July; $17,000,000 in August), and no individual or PAC contributions of its own. Senate Majority PAC took in $174,218,936.68 from Jan. 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 (the sum of its four F3X summaries). Its largest sources as filed, cycle totals: Majority Forward, a nonprofit that does not disclose its donors, $61,000,000 (four transfers, 35 percent); Democracy PAC $9,000,000; Fred Eychaner $9,000,000; AFT entities $3,500,000; Greater New York Hospital Association Management Corp. $3,250,000; American Opportunity Action $3,000,000.02; Stephen Mandel of Lone Pine Capital $3,000,000; the United Association Political Issues Fund $2,500,000; Phillip Ragon of InterSystems, George Marcus of Marcus & Millichap, Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures and Amos Hostetter Jr. of Pilot House Associates $2,000,000 each; UFCW Working Families Advocacy Project $1,125,000; the Operating Engineers' EARN PAC $1,075,000; J Street Action Fund $1,000,000.
As of Oct. 30, 2026, the FEC's independent-expenditure file shows $77,812,004.53 spent opposing Jon Husted (62 lines) and $9,095,168.80 supporting Brown (5 lines), $86,907,173.33 in all. The FEC codes the Husted spending as opposing Husted, not supporting Brown. Amounts are summed from the 24- and 48-hour notices WinSenate filed, with an amended filing counted once.

Sources: fec.gov · fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · issueone.org · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Interests on record
- Senate Majority PAC's stated purpose is electing Democrats to the Senate. The interests behind Majority Forward's 35 percent share cannot be documented.
  Sources: issueone.org · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
- Of the disclosed institutional funders: GNYHA's 2026 filings seek changes to the health provisions of H.R. 1 (including ACA tax credits), more Graduate Medical Education residency slots, and monitor the 340B program and the Tax Exempt Hospital Transparency Act; J Street's 2026 report covers the United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act, the Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act, UNRWA funding restoration and the SANCTIONS in the West Bank Act; AFT's and UFCW's agendas are in the union entries above.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Seeks changes to: Changes to H.R. 1 health provisions, including ACA premium tax credits (GNYHA) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Graduate Medical Education residency expansion (GNYHA) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act; Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act; UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act (J Street) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

No link found

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: No position bears on the vehicle itself.

How it would reach them: None at the vehicle level. Independent expenditures reach voters as advertising and may not be coordinated with the campaign.
Timing: unknown

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

For their interests Industry

Instead of lowering the cost of health care, they're raising drug prices on seniors and kicking 490,000 hardworking Ohioans off their coverage.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Opposition to H.R. 1's changes to Medicaid and ACA coverage (launch video, Aug. 18, 2025).

How it would reach them: GNYHA, an SMP funder, lobbies to change H.R. 1's health provisions; Medicaid and ACA subsidy money reaches its member hospitals as patient revenue. The overlap is with a funder of the super PAC's parent, not with WinSenate directly.
Timing: Position public Aug. 18, 2025; GNYHA's gifts fall in 2025-26.

Sources: statenews.org · lda.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund (joint fundraising committee) · $8.3M · 1 alignment
$8,310,600 as filed · PAC

A joint fundraising committee registered Aug. 18, 2025 whose Form 1 lists four participants: Friends of Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democratic Party's federal account, America Works Federal PAC and the DSCC. America Works Federal PAC's own amended Form 1 (Dec. 31, 2025) lists Sherrod Brown as its leadership-PAC sponsor and Dignity of Work PAC as an affiliate. Through June 30, 2026 the fund took in $8,737,153.45 in itemized individual gifts across 4,353 non-memo rows and passed on $7,548,100: $5,655,600 to the campaign, $1,453,000 to the Ohio Democratic Party, $239,500 to America Works Federal PAC (seven transfers, Sept. 12, 2025 to June 22, 2026) and $200,000 to the DSCC. Its itemized donors, by the employer they filed: no employer reported (retired or not employed) $4,100,069.57; lawyers and law-firm employees about $919,750; film, television and media employees about $566,850 (Sony Pictures, WME, CAA, Bad Robot, Carsey-Werner); investment and finance about $404,250; hospitals and health care about $332,850; real estate and architecture about $293,200. By filed occupation, attorneys gave $911,400 in 558 gifts. Committees that gave to the fund directly include the United Mine Workers' Coal Miners PAC ($3,000), Duane Morris Government Committee ($2,500), the Roetzel & Andress law-firm PAC ($1,000) and about fifteen leadership PACs.
Itemized joint-fundraising transfers from committee C00916296 to Friends of Sherrod Brown (C00916288) on the campaign's Schedule A line 12, Sept. 12, 2025 through Oct. 12, 2026. The campaign's pre-general report (coverage Oct. 1 to Oct. 14, 2026) shows the fund's running aggregate at $8,310,600 after a $450,000 transfer on 2026-10-12. Through June 30, 2026 the same itemized transfers summed to $5,655,600 (twelve transfers, $975,000 on 2025-09-12 to $318,000 on 2026-06-30), which the fund's own Schedule B also shows.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · jstreetpac.org · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Interests on record
- The vehicle has no business interest; it is an allocation device. J Street PAC's page for it gives the formula: the first $3,500 from a person and the first $5,000 from a multicandidate PAC go to the campaign for the primary, with later dollars going to the party, the leadership PAC and the DSCC.
  Sources: jstreetpac.org · docquery.fec.gov
- Its itemized donors are individuals, recorded here only as sector totals by filed employer and occupation (a keyword grouping of the employer field, applied to the raw Schedule A). No policy interest is attributed to them as individuals; where a sector's own trade group or firm lobbies, that appears under the sector entries below.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
The candidate's positions

No link found

The first $3,500 of each contribution from a person and the first $5,000 from a multicandidate committee ("PAC") will be allocated to Friends of Sherrod Brown for the primary election.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: No candidate position bears on the joint fundraising committee as a vehicle.

How it would reach them: Transfers reach the campaign at the per-election limit for each donor; the rest of a large check reaches the Ohio Democratic Party's federal account, his own leadership PAC (America Works Federal PAC) and the DSCC.
Timing: unknown

Sources: jstreetpac.org · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
Lawyers and law-firm employees (individual donors, aggregated by filed occupation and employer) · $1.1M · 1 alignment
$1,060,583 as filed · campaign committee

The largest occupational group among itemized donors who reported one. Among named firms (employer as filed): Clifford Law Offices $18,500 to the campaign (net of a $3,500 refund on 2025-12-24); Smith LaCien $11,000; Corboy & Demetrio $8,250; Keefe Keefe & Unsell $8,000; Baron and Budd, Cooney & Conway, Salvi Schostok & Pritchard, Williams Hart & Boundas, Becker Law Firm and the Social Media Victims Law Center $7,000 each; and to the JFC, Wright & Schulte $22,000, Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy $21,500 and Kazan Law $18,000. Four of these firms describe their own practices as personal injury and wrongful death (Clifford), class-action, consumer-protection and antitrust litigation (Cotchett), class actions and mass torts (Wright & Schulte) and asbestos injury (Kazan). Large defense and corporate firms also appear (WilmerHale, Squire Patton Boggs, Thompson Hine, Vorys).
Itemized individual gifts to the campaign whose filed occupation contains 'attorney' or 'lawyer': $1,060,583.29 in 3,221 gifts through June 30, 2026 (raw Schedule A). The joint fundraising committee received another $911,400 in 558 such gifts, part of which reached the campaign as transfers.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · cliffordlaw.com · cpmlegal.com · yourlegalhelp.com · kazanlaw.com

Interests on record
- Individuals are not assigned policy interests. The trial bar's trade association, the American Association for Justice, lobbies against forced arbitration and on liability bills (see its entry).
  Sources: lda.gov · cliffordlaw.com · cpmlegal.com · yourlegalhelp.com · kazanlaw.com
The candidate's positions

For their interests Industry

Forced arbitration clauses let big companies hide from accountability and silence victims, giving more power to Wall Street over workers and their families.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Arbitration Fairness for Consumers Act (2019, 2022) and original cosponsor of the FAIR Act (2019-2023).

How it would reach them: Voiding pre-dispute arbitration clauses and class waivers widens the cases plaintiffs' firms can bring; it would not reach defense or corporate firms the same way, and those firms' employees are in the same occupational total.
Timing: Bills 2019-2023, before the 2025-26 gifts.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · lda.gov
Other joint fundraising committees (OH NC Victory Fund 2026, Van Hollen Sherrod Brown Victory Fund, Justice 2026, Brown-Pappas-Peltola-Talarico Senate Victory Fund, Majority 2026 and six others) · $644K · 1 alignment
$644,462 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Joint fundraising vehicles shared with other Democratic Senate candidates and party committees, per their Form 1s: Roy Cooper (North Carolina), Chris Van Hollen, Chris Pappas, Mary Peltola, James Talarico, Jon Ossoff, Ron Wyden, Adam Schiff, the DSCC, Liftoff PAC and the Ohio and North Carolina Democratic parties. Their underlying donors appear as memo lines on the campaign's line 12.
Line-12 transfers to the campaign through June 30, 2026, raw filings: OH NC Victory Fund 2026 $163,600; Van Hollen Sherrod Brown Victory Fund $106,085.63; Justice 2026 $89,422.53; Brown, Pappas, Peltola, Talarico Senate Victory Fund $86,000; Majority 2026 $59,400; The Liftoff Fund $38,200; Ohio Senate Victory 2026 (DSCC) $31,500; Green Senate 2026 $26,625.45; Blue Senate 2026 $20,278.32; Wyden Fund for a Senate Majority 2026 $16,500; Blue Senate Candidate Fund $6,850. With the Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund's $5,655,600 these make the campaign's $6,300,061.93 in transfers from authorized committees.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Interests on record
- Allocation devices with no business interest of their own.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
The candidate's positions

No link found

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: None applicable.

How it would reach them: None; the transfers reach the campaign at the per-donor limits.
Timing: unknown

Source: docquery.fec.gov
Leadership PACs of other Democratic officeholders · $386K · 1 alignment
$386,500 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Political committees sponsored by other Democratic senators and representatives, which raise money from their own donors and pass it to candidates in contested races; together the largest category of PAC money on his 2026 filings (46 percent of the $861,022.72 in PAC receipts). About fifteen of them also gave to the Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund in December 2025.
Forty-seven committees the FEC designates as leadership PACs, most giving $10,000 (primary and general) between Aug. 15 and Aug. 20, 2025; e.g., REV UP PAC, Maple PAC, Senate Fight Fund, ALSOPAC, Off the Sidelines PAC, Treasure State PAC, Keystone America PAC, PAC to the Future. Schedule A, line 11C. Committee types are as the FEC lists them. Health Jobs Justice (Sen. Ossoff, $10,000 on Aug. 18, 2025) has its own entry and is subtracted here, leaving 46 committees and $386,500.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Interests on record
- A Democratic Senate majority; no business interest of the vehicles themselves.
  Source: api.open.fec.gov
The candidate's positions

No link found

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: None applicable.

How it would reach them: None. The money reaches the campaign at the $5,000-per-election PAC limit; the sponsors' own donors are not traced here.
Timing: unknown

Source: docquery.fec.gov
Investment, banking and finance employees (individual donors, aggregated) · $381K · 2 alignments
$380,955 as filed · campaign committee

Employees of hedge funds, private-equity and venture firms, investment banks and trading firms, a small share (about 2 percent) of itemized receipts. Jane Street Group's own 2026 lobbying (through Hogan Lovells, $10,000) lists 'issues related to the regulation of financial investments'; Blackstone's lists financial-services and business-tax issues.
Itemized individual gifts to the campaign whose filed occupation names investing, finance, banking, trading, venture or portfolio work: $380,954.59 in 568 gifts; the JFC received $297,000 in 85 such gifts. Named firms (employer as filed, to the campaign): Jane Street $14,000 (a further $14,000 came through the joint fundraising committee); Centerview Partners and Greylock $14,000 each; Charlesbank Capital Partners $8,000; Evercore, Baupost, Lone Pine Capital, Berkshire Partners and Soros Fund Management $7,000 each; Blackstone $3,600.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- Firm-level lobbying only; individuals are not assigned interests.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
The candidate's positions

Cuts against their interests Industry

The carried interest loophole is yet another example of Wall Street executives exploiting our tax code to pad their pockets rather than invest in workers and Main Street

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the Carried Interest Fairness Act (S.1598, May 12, 2021; S.4123, April 15, 2024).

How it would reach them: Taxing carried interest as ordinary income raises the tax on private-equity, venture and hedge-fund managers' profit shares; it reaches the fund managers in this group, not bank or trading-firm salaries.
Timing: Bills 2021 and 2024, before the 2025-26 gifts.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · lda.gov

Cuts against their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Stock Buyback Accountability Act of 2023 (S.413), raising the stock-repurchase excise tax from 1 to 4 percent, and of the RECOUP Act (S.2190, 2023) on clawing back failed-bank executives' pay.

How it would reach them: A higher buyback tax lowers returns to shareholders of companies that repurchase stock, including funds that hold them; RECOUP reaches executives of banks above $10 billion in assets.
Timing: Bills 2023, before the gifts.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · debevoisefintechblog.com
JStreetPAC (conduit and registered-lobbyist bundler) · $321K · 2 alignments
$321,303 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The PAC of J Street, which is registered as a federal lobbying organization. Earmarked gifts are individuals' money routed through the PAC and already counted in individual totals. J Street Action Fund separately gave Senate Majority PAC $1,000,000 on March 11, 2026.
Individual contributions earmarked through JStreetPAC (C00441949): $321,303.43 in 377 conduit memo lines on the campaign's reports and $162,000 in 22 lines on the Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund's, Aug. 2025 to June 30, 2026, summed from the raw filings. The campaign's lobbyist-bundling reports (Form 3L) list JStreetPAC as having bundled $234,110.29 for Aug. 11 to Dec. 31, 2025 and $98,371.04 for Jan. 1 to June 30, 2026. The first pass's $642,606.86 and $324,000 are exactly twice the raw sums.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- J Street's second-quarter 2026 in-house report ($170,000) lists the United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act (S. 554 / H.R. 1229), the Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act (S. 556), the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act (S. 898 / H.R. 2411), the SANCTIONS in the West Bank Act (S. 2672), the Combating International Islamophobia Act, the Antisemitism Awareness Act and appropriations provisions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, without a stated side on each.
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act; Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act; UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act; SANCTIONS in the West Bank Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Antisemitism Awareness Act; Combating International Islamophobia Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

Mixed Industry

Ultimately, Senator Brown believes that Israel and Hamas must agree to a ceasefire that ends the war, frees the hostages, and delivers desperately needed humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Nay on the three Nov. 20, 2024 motions to discharge resolutions disapproving arms sales to Israel (S.J.Res. 111, 113, 115; rejected 18-79, 19-78, 17-80). A Brown spokesperson, before the November 2024 vote (per Jewish Insider): Israel has 'a clear and undeniable right to defend itself' and 'Israel and Hamas must agree to a ceasefire.'

How it would reach them: J Street's filing lists Israel security-assistance and West Bank sanctions bills without stating sides here, so the overlap with his votes cannot be scored as aligning or cutting against from the documents opened.
Timing: Votes November 2024; statement before those votes; before the 2025-26 earmarked gifts.

Sources: senate.gov · senate.gov · senate.gov · jewishinsider.com · lda.gov

Mixed Industry

Ohio taxpayers have already spent a billion dollars on this war. That's money we're not spending on schools, money we're not spending on roads.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: On a U.S. war with Iran (2026): 'Ohio taxpayers have already spent a billion dollars on this war.'

How it would reach them: J Street lists the Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act without a stated side; his 2026 statements oppose the war's cost. No direct overlap is scored.
Timing: Statements March and June 2026, during the earmarking period.

Sources: signalohio.org · ohiocapitaljournal.com · lda.gov
J. David Page · $75K · 0 alignments

$75,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Listed on the filing as self-employed in real estate, Tacoma, Washington. No business or public role was sourced beyond the filing.
One $75,000 contribution to the Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund, his joint fundraising committee with the Ohio Democratic Party, America Works Federal PAC and the DSCC (see that entry) on Aug. 18, 2025, earmarked through ActBlue (filed as self-employed, real estate, Tacoma, Washington). Friends of Sherrod Brown's report attributes $7,000 of it to the campaign in two $3,500 memo entries dated Aug. 24, 2025.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Joseph S. Kanfer (Walnut Ridge, as filed) · $66K · 0 alignments

$66,300 as filed · PAC · In state

Filed as founding partner of Walnut Ridge, Beachwood, Ohio. No business or public role was sourced beyond the filing.
$3,500 given to Friends of Sherrod Brown on Nov. 7, 2025, earmarked through JStreetPAC (filed as Walnut Ridge Mgmt, management), and $62,800 to the Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund, his joint fundraising committee with the Ohio Democratic Party, America Works Federal PAC and the DSCC (see that entry) on June 15, 2026 (filed as founding partner, Walnut Ridge, Beachwood, Ohio). The campaign's July 2026 report attributes $3,500 of the fund gift to the campaign, so $7,000 in all reached Friends of Sherrod Brown.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Public-employee, teacher and postal union PACs (AFSCME, AFT, NEA, APWU, NALC, NRLCA, AFGE, NARFE) · $64K · 5 alignments
$63,500 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The federal PACs of unions and associations of state, local and federal workers, teachers, postal workers and federal retirees. AFSCME PEOPLE's $1.09 million in independent expenditures supporting him were made in August and September 2024, not in this race. AFT entities gave Senate Majority PAC $3,500,000 in 2025-26 (AFT Solidarity 527 $1,750,000; AFT COPE $1,750,000), and AFSCME Working Families Fund reported $1,000,000 against Husted on Sept. 15, 2026.
AFSCME PEOPLE $10,000 (2025-10-24); AFT COPE $10,000 (2025-09-30 and 2026-01-26); APWU COPA $10,000 (2025-09-03 and 2026-02-26); NRLCA PAC $10,000 (2026-02-26 and 2026-06-25); AFGE PAC $7,500 (2025-09-30, 2025-12-14, 2026-02-27); NARFE-PAC $6,000 (2025-12-31 and 2026-04-15); NEA Fund $5,000 (2025-11-20); Letter Carriers' COLPE $5,000 (2025-12-31). Schedule A, line 11C; re-checked against the raw filings.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · spectrumnews1.com · govinfo.gov · senate.gov · web.archive.org · fec.gov

Interests on record
- Restoring full Social Security benefits to retirees who also draw a pension from public employment not covered by Social Security (repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset).
  Source: spectrumnews1.com
- AFT (third-quarter 2025 report, $430,000): the Faster Labor Contracts Act, the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act (H.R. 2736 / S. 1352), the Protect America's Workforce Act, repeal of the health provisions of H.R. 1 and the enhanced ACA premium tax credits; it monitors the Nurse Staffing Standards Act and lists crypto bills. AFSCME (Q2 2026, $630,000): the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633), the 2026 farm bill, SNAP administration and the ROAD to Housing Act.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Postal unions (Q2 2026): APWU supports the PRO Act (S. 852), the Social Security Expansion Act and the Equal COLA Act and opposes postal privatization; NALC and NRLCA support the Protect Our Letter Carriers Act (S. 463 / H.R. 1065) and the Federal Retirement Fairness Act (H.R. 1522). Federal-worker groups: AFGE supports the Protect America's Workforce Act (H.R. 2550) and the Shutdown Fairness Act; NARFE supports the Saving the Civil Service Act (H.R. 492 / S. 134) and the Equal COLA Act.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: Social Security Fairness Act (enacted Jan. 2025) and Social Security Expansion Act (H.R. 1700 / S. 770) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · spectrumnews1.com
- Supports: Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act (H.R. 2736 / S. 1352) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Faster Labor Contracts Act (H.R. 5408 / S. 844) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Repeal of the health provisions of H.R. 1; enhanced ACA premium tax credits (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: PRO Act (S. 852) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Opposes: Postal privatization; Return to Sender Act (H.R. 1982 / S. 913) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Protect Our Letter Carriers Act (S. 463 / H.R. 1065); Federal Retirement Fairness Act (H.R. 1522) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Saving the Civil Service Act (H.R. 492 / S. 134); Equal COLA Act (H.R. 491 / S. 624); Shutdown Fairness Act (S. 3168 / H.R. 7137) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Protect America's Workforce Act (H.R. 2550), restoring federal collective bargaining (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (H.R. 3633) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

It's a wonderful way to end the year. We're bringing some equity in my state, where 250,000 workers will be helped by this. It really is to me about this canary pin, and about the dignity of work and fighting for workers.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Social Security Fairness Act in four Congresses (S.915 in 2017, S.521 in 2019, S.1302 in 2021, S.597 on March 1, 2023 with Susan Collins); voted Yea when the Senate passed the House version, H.R. 82, on Dec. 21, 2024 (76-20). His campaign homepage says over 2 million former public workers 'are now receiving their full Social Security payments'.

How it would reach them: Repealing the two provisions raises the monthly Social Security check of retirees who also receive a pension from non-covered public employment (in Ohio, STRS, OPERS and police and fire members) and of surviving spouses in that position; it raises Social Security outlays.
Timing: Sponsorships 2017-2023; final vote Dec. 21, 2024; before all of these contributions.

Sources: spectrumnews1.com · govinfo.gov · senate.gov · web.archive.org

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2024 (S.4363, May 16, 2024) and of its 2018 and 2019 versions.

How it would reach them: The bill would set a federal floor for public employees' right to organize and bargain, regardless of state law; it reaches public-sector unions (AFT, AFSCME, NEA) as members and bargaining power, and state and local employers as labor costs.
Timing: Bill May 2024, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Cosponsor of the Saving the Civil Service Act (S.399, cosponsored Oct. 16, 2023) and of the 2020 bill to nullify the Schedule F executive order.

How it would reach them: Barring reclassification of career federal jobs into an at-will schedule protects federal employees' tenure; NARFE lists the 2025 version (S. 134) and AFGE lists related bills.
Timing: Cosponsorship 2023, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Cosponsor of the Protect Our Letter Carriers Act of 2024 (S.4356, July 25, 2024); voted Yea on the Postal Service Reform Act (H.R. 3076), March 8, 2022 (79-19).

How it would reach them: The letter-carrier bill raises penalties for assaults on carriers; the 2022 law repealed the retiree-health prefunding mandate and moved postal retirees toward Medicare. Both reach postal workers and the Postal Service's finances. NALC and NRLCA list the 2025 version (S. 463).
Timing: 2022 and 2024, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · senate.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Industry

Instead of lowering the cost of health care, they're raising drug prices on seniors and kicking 490,000 hardworking Ohioans off their coverage.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Opposition to the Medicaid provisions of the 2025 reconciliation law (H.R. 1), stated at his Aug. 18, 2025 launch and on a July 2026 Ironton stop.

How it would reach them: Federal Medicaid money reaches public hospitals and county human-services agencies that employ AFSCME members; restoring it would raise federal outlays and reach those payrolls. AFT's filing lists repeal of H.R. 1's health provisions. It would not reach postal or federal-agency employees.
Timing: Position public Aug. 18, 2025, before most of these contributions (after APWU's and AFGE's first gifts).

Sources: statenews.org · irontontribune.com · lda.gov
Nationally known individual donors (George and Alexander Soros, J.B. Pritzker, Tom Steyer, Seth Klarman, Nat Simons, Reid Hoffman, Lawrence Summers) · $56K · 0 alignments

$56,000 as filed · campaign committee · Out of state

Out-of-state individual donors, as filed: George Soros, business executive, Soros Fund Management; Alexander Soros, self-employed investor; J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois; Tom Steyer, co-executive chair, Galvanize Climate Solutions; Seth Klarman, CEO, The Baupost Group; Nat Simons, investor, Meritage Group; Reid Hoffman, venture capital, Greylock; Lawrence Summers, professor, Harvard. No Ohio-specific business interest was documented for any of them in the sources opened.
$7,000 each ($3,500 primary, $3,500 general) given to Friends of Sherrod Brown on Schedule A line 11: George Soros and Alexander Soros, Aug. 19, 2025; J.B. Pritzker (filed as Jay Pritzker, governor, State of Illinois), Aug. 18, 2025; Tom Steyer, Aug. 28, 2025; Seth Klarman, Sept. 11, 2025; Nat Simons, Oct. 6, 2025; Reid Hoffman, Dec. 31, 2025. Pritzker, Steyer, Klarman and Hoffman gave through ActBlue as conduit; the two Soroses and Simons gave with no conduit. None of those seven reached the campaign through the Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund. Lawrence Summers did: $7,000 to the fund on Aug. 19, 2025 (through ActBlue), which the campaign's report attributes to it in two $3,500 memo entries dated Aug. 24, 2025; no direct gift from him appears on the campaign's reports through June 30, 2026. Simons also gave the fund $10,000 on Oct. 16, 2025 and $10,000 on May 20, 2026, which the campaign's reports do not attribute to it. The amount is the $56,000 that reached the campaign.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Transportation, manufacturing, mining, communications and entertainment-guild union PACs (CWA, ATU, IAM, UWUA, ALPA, ILA, BCTGM, UMWA, IFPTE, Teamsters Local 727, DGA, IATSE) · $54K · 8 alignments
$53,500 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Twelve union political committees not covered in the first pass. The Ohio Conference of Teamsters endorsed him July 10, 2026; its parent union's PAC does not appear among his contributors through June 30, 2026.
Amalgamated Transit Union COPE $10,000 (2025-12-18 and 2026-02-19); CWA-COPE $6,000 (2026-03-31 and 2026-04-14); IAM Non-Partisan Political League $5,000 (2025-11-20); Utility Workers COPE $5,000 (2025-12-18); Air Line Pilots Association PAC $5,000 (2026-02-27); International Longshoremen's Association COPE $5,000 (2026-03-27); BCTGM PAC $5,000 (2026-05-05); Directors Guild of America PAC $5,000 (2026-05-04); IATSE PAC $2,500 (2026-04-15); UMWA Coal Miners PAC $2,000 (2025-10-29 and 2026-02-11; plus $3,000 to the joint fundraising committee on 2026-03-24); IFPTE LEAP PAC $2,000; Teamsters Local 727 $1,000 (2025-11-06). Schedule A, line 11C, raw filings. Not in the first pass.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · teamster.org · sherrodbrown.com · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- UMWA (Q2 2026, $80,000): the Black Lung Benefits Improvement Act (S. 3491), the Relief for Survivors of Miners Act (S. 3505), the Striking and Locked Out Workers Healthcare Protection Act (S. 1984 / H.R. 3532), the Faster Labor Contracts Act, the PRO Act, the Social Security Expansion Act and MSHA's silica rule. IAM (Q2 2026, $715,000): the PRO Act, Faster Labor Contracts Act, Empowering Striking Workers Act, the Railway Safety Act (S. 3903), the Trade Adjustment Modernization Act, 'Buy America' in the surface transportation bill and the SHIPS for America Act.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- CWA (Q2 2026, $431,000): the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act, Raise the Wage Act, Faster Labor Contracts Act, the Reward Work Act on stock buybacks, the Restore Trust in Congress Act (H.R. 5106 / S. 3649) banning members' stock trading, and reversing H.R. 1's Medicaid and ACA cuts. ATU (Q2 2026, $70,000): the Moving Transit Forward Act (S. 3455), transit safety bills, the PRO Act and the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act. UWUA: the PRO Act (S. 852). ALPA: the Tax Fairness for Workers Act, the PRO Act and aviation-safety bills. ILA: the Maritime Supply Chain Security Act (H.R. 2390). Teamsters (international, Q2 2026, $489,143): the Faster Labor Contracts Act, the PRO Act, the Carried Interest Fairness Act (S. 445), the Striking and Locked Out Workers Healthcare Protection Act, the Railway Safety Act and autonomous-truck bills.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: Richard L. Trumka PRO Act (S. 852 / H.R. 20) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: Faster Labor Contracts Act (S. 844 / H.R. 5408) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: Striking and Locked Out Workers Healthcare Protection Act (S. 1984 / H.R. 3532) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: Black Lung Benefits Improvement Act (S. 3491); Relief for Survivors of Miners Act (S. 3505) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Railway Safety Act (S. 3903) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: Moving Transit Forward Act (S. 3455) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act (S. 1352 / H.R. 2736); Raise the Wage Act (S. 1332) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: Restore Trust in Congress Act (H.R. 5106 / S. 3649), a ban on members' stock trading (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Carried Interest Fairness Act (S. 445) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Trade Adjustment Modernization Act; Buy America in surface transportation reauthorization; SHIPS for America Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Maritime Supply Chain Security Act (H.R. 2390) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the PRO Act in three Congresses: S.1306 (introduced May 2, 2019), S.420 (Feb. 24, 2021) and S.567, the Richard L. Trumka PRO Act (Feb. 28, 2023). The Senate sponsors were Patty Murray (116th, 117th) and Bernie Sanders (118th); the IBEW's endorsement describes him as having introduced it, which is the union's wording, not the bill record.

How it would reach them: IAM, UMWA, UWUA, ALPA, ATU, BCTGM and the Teamsters list the PRO Act; it reaches unions as organizing rights and employers as the cost of resisting them.
Timing: Original cosponsorships 2019-2023, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

If elected, Brown has committed to co-sponsoring the Faster Labor Contracts Act in the Senate.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Committed, per the Teamsters' July 10, 2026 endorsement, to cosponsor the Faster Labor Contracts Act if elected.

How it would reach them: First-contract deadlines reach newly organized units; UMWA, IAM, CWA and the Teamsters list the bill.
Timing: Commitment public July 10, 2026, after these contributions.

Sources: teamster.org · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Too many times in Ohio and around the country, we've seen corporations lock workers out of their contracts and kick them off the health coverage they earned and negotiated at the bargaining table.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Striking and Locked Out Workers Healthcare Protection Act (S.710, March 8, 2023); UMWA and the Teamsters list its 2025 version.

How it would reach them: Keeping health coverage during strikes and lockouts lowers the cost of a work stoppage to members and raises it for employers.
Timing: Bills 2022-2023, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · lda.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the Black Lung Benefits Improvement Act of 2023 (S.3304) and the Relief for Survivors of Miners Act of 2023 (S.2416), and of the American Miners Act of 2019 (S.27).

How it would reach them: The 2019 act transferred federal funds to the 1974 UMWA Pension Plan and retired miners' health benefits (per its CRS summary); the 2023 bills, by their titles and UMWA's filing, concern black-lung benefits and survivors' benefits. They reach UMWA members and retirees.
Timing: Bills 2019 and 2023, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Cosponsor of the Moving Transit Forward Act of 2024 (S.4316, May 15, 2024).

How it would reach them: A transit funding bill, by its title; federal transit money reaches transit agencies' payrolls and the ATU members they employ. ATU lists the 2025 version (S. 3455).
Timing: Bill 2024, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Railway Safety Act of 2023 (S.576); sponsor of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2024 (S.4582) and the Build America, Buy America Act (S.1303, 2021).

How it would reach them: IAM lists the 2025-26 Railway Safety Act, trade adjustment assistance and Buy America; rail safety rules reach IAM's rail crafts, and Buy America reaches its manufacturing members' orders.
Timing: Bills 2021-2024, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Members of Congress and their spouses should be banned from trading stocks.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the ETHICS Act (S.1171, April 17, 2023) to bar members of Congress from holding individual stocks; his June 9, 2026 campaign ad calls for a ban.

How it would reach them: CWA lists the Restore Trust in Congress Act, a ban on members' stock trading. The policy reaches members of Congress and their families, not the union's members' pay.
Timing: Cosponsorship April 2023; ad June 9, 2026; CWA gave March 31 and April 14, 2026.

Sources: govinfo.gov · sherrodbrown.com · lda.gov

For their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Stock Buyback Accountability Act of 2023 (S.413), raising the excise tax on stock repurchases from 1 to 4 percent.

How it would reach them: CWA lists the Reward Work Act on buybacks. A higher buyback tax reaches corporations that repurchase shares and their shareholders; its reach to workers' pay is not documented.
Timing: Bill February 2023, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · lda.gov
Building trades union PACs (IBEW, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Iron Workers, Plumbers and Pipefitters, Painters) · $50K · 6 alignments
$50,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The federal PACs of six construction unions. The IBEW endorsed him Aug. 18, 2025, saying it represents 27,000 Ohioans; the Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council endorsed him in March 2026 (per the Ohio Capital Journal). The United Association's Political Issues Fund also gave Senate Majority PAC $2,500,000 in 2025-26.
IBEW COPE $10,000 (2025-09-03); International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers $10,000 (2025-09-03); Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee $10,000 (2026-04-30); Iron Workers IPAL $10,000 (2026-03-09); UA Union Plumbers and Pipefitters VOTE! PAC $5,000 (2026-05-04); IUPAT Political Action Together $5,000 (2025-12-15). Schedule A, line 11C; re-checked against the raw filings.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · ibew.org · ohiocapitaljournal.com · signalohio.org · senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov

Interests on record
- IBEW's second-quarter 2026 in-house report ($170,000; the Q2 box is the one checked on the form): the Faster Labor Contracts Act (H.R. 5408); the Tax Fairness for Workers Act (H.R. 2671) to restore the union-dues deduction; the Modern Worker Empowerment Act (S. 2228) and other worker-classification bills; the SHIPS for America Act; the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (H.R. 3633) and GENIUS Act under retirement issues; rail safety; permitting; data centers and energy.
  Source: lda.gov
- Bricklayers' second-quarter 2026 report ($120,000): support for the Faster Labor Contracts Act (S. 844 / H.R. 5408), the Rebuild America's Schools Act (S. 3777 / H.R. 7340) and the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act (H.R. 7782 / S. 4012).
  Source: lda.gov
- Iron Workers' second-quarter 2026 report ($100,000): H.R. 5408 (Faster Labor Contracts), the BUILD America 250 surface transportation bill (H.R. 8870) and opposition to an NDAA amendment striking collective-bargaining protections for civilian Defense employees. Painters (IUPAT, $140,000): the Multiemployer Plan Relief Act (H.R. 6685 / S. 3615) and H.R. 8870. Carpenters (through Longbow, 2026): Labor-HHS appropriations; in 2025 it lobbied against cuts to renewable-energy incentives in H.R. 1.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- On data centers, the Ohio Building Trades' president testified to a state legislative committee in June 2026 that Ohio should not reduce the data-center sales-tax exemption, and the Cleveland Building Trades Council, which backs the industry, has endorsed Husted (per Signal Ohio).
  Source: signalohio.org
What they lobby for
- Supports: Faster Labor Contracts Act (S. 844 / H.R. 5408) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: Tax Fairness for Workers Act (H.R. 2671), restoring the union-dues deduction (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Modern Worker Empowerment Act (S. 2228) and other independent-contractor bills (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Rebuild America's Schools Act (S. 3777 / H.R. 7340) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Green New Deal for Public Housing Act (H.R. 7782 / S. 4012) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: BUILD America 250 Act surface transportation reauthorization (H.R. 8870) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Multiemployer Plan Relief Act (H.R. 6685 / S. 3615) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: SHIPS for America Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (H.R. 3633) and GENIUS Act, as retirement-savings issues (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Opposes: Ohio data-center sales-tax exemption (keep it) (Ohio)
  Source: signalohio.org
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

He introduced countless pro-worker bills like the Protecting the Right to Organize Act

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the PRO Act in three Congresses: S.1306 (introduced May 2, 2019), S.420 (Feb. 24, 2021) and S.567, the Richard L. Trumka PRO Act (Feb. 28, 2023). The Senate sponsors were Patty Murray (116th, 117th) and Bernie Sanders (118th); the IBEW's endorsement describes him as having introduced it, which is the union's wording, not the bill record.

How it would reach them: The PRO Act's three-part test would count as an employee, for collective-bargaining purposes, anyone not shown to be free of the hiring firm's control, working outside its usual course of business and independently established. On construction sites that reaches workers a contractor now labels independent contractors, making them organizable, and raises labor costs for contractors that rely on that labeling. The quote is the IBEW's wording.
Timing: Original cosponsorships 2019, 2021 and 2023, before the 2025 and 2026 contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · ibew.org · en.wikipedia.org

For their interests Direct

If elected, Brown has committed to co-sponsoring the Faster Labor Contracts Act in the Senate.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Committed, per the Teamsters' July 10, 2026 endorsement, to cosponsor the Faster Labor Contracts Act if elected.

How it would reach them: The bill sets deadlines and mediation for first contracts after a union wins recognition. It reaches newly organized units and the unions that organize them (IBEW, Bricklayers and Iron Workers list it), and shortens the time an employer can take to reach a first agreement.
Timing: Commitment public July 10, 2026, after all six contributions.

Sources: teamster.org · lda.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the Rebuild America's Schools Act of 2023 (S.2608, July 27, 2023).

How it would reach them: The Bricklayers list the 2025 version (S. 3777) as addressing 'aging, under-funded, and unsafe school facilities'; federal money for school repair and construction reaches the contractors and crews that do that work.
Timing: Bill July 2023, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684), Aug. 10, 2021 (69-30).

How it would reach them: Federal spending on roads, bridges, transit, water and broadband funds the construction work these unions' members perform; it reaches contractors and crews on federally funded projects.
Timing: Vote August 2021, before the contributions.

Sources: senate.gov · ibew.org

For their interests Direct

vital to rescuing pensions in the hard-won battle to pass the Butch Lewis Act

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Butch Lewis Act (S.2147 in 2017, S.2254 in 2019, S.547 in 2021); his office reported that a version was enacted in the American Rescue Plan, which he voted for on March 6, 2021 (50-49). His campaign homepage: 'Sherrod led the charge to make sure over 100,000 Ohioans got the retirement they were owed.'

How it would reach them: Federal assistance to underfunded multiemployer pension plans pays promised benefits to retirees in those plans, which include building-trades and Teamsters plans; the IUPAT's 2026 filing lists further multiemployer-plan legislation. It does not reach single-employer or public pensions. The quote is the IBEW's.
Timing: Bills 2017-2021; law March 2021; before the contributions.

Sources: ibew.org · web.archive.org · govinfo.gov · brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · senate.gov · lda.gov

Cuts against their interests Direct

They should eliminate the tax breaks. Why would we want these data centers to come in and use tax dollars to get them here?

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Calls for Ohio to end its sales-tax exemption for data centers and runs ads naming Husted 'the face of data centers in Ohio'; says local residents should decide on new projects.

How it would reach them: Data centers are built and wired by building-trades members, and the Ohio Building Trades told legislators the exemption should stay; ending it would raise the cost of building in Ohio and could reduce the number of projects and the members' construction hours. Lower electricity bills, the ads' stated aim, would reach the same members as ratepayers. It is a state tax, so a senator's vote would not change it directly.
Timing: Stated in a June 2026 Spectrum News interview and July 2026 ads (Signal Ohio, July 8, 2026), after all six contributions.

Sources: signalohio.org · ohiocapitaljournal.com · statenews.org · lda.gov
Issue PACs: reproductive rights, gun safety, environment, LGBTQ rights and pro-Israel (Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Reproductive Freedom for All, ACOG, Washington Women for Choice, HRC, Giffords, LCV, NRDC, Population Connection, JACPAC) · $44K · 4 alignments
$43,901 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Ideological and advocacy PACs. Their affiliated super PACs and funds are also active in the race: LCV Victory Fund ($1,500,208.74), NRDC Action Votes ($3,000,000) and EDF Action Votes ($2,503,665.74) filed notices opposing Husted in September 2026.
Washington Women for Choice $10,000 (2026-05-05); Planned Parenthood Action Fund PAC $5,000 (2026-04-30); Reproductive Freedom for All PAC $5,000 (2025-12-05); American Congress of OB-GYNs PAC $5,000 (2026-06-09); LCV Action Fund $4,875 (three entries, 2025-08-18 to 2025-12-18); Human Rights Campaign PAC $4,500 (2026-05-13); NRDC Action Fund PAC $3,526.41 (five entries, Oct.-Nov. 2025); Giffords PAC $2,500 (2025-09-16); Joint Action Committee for Political Affairs $2,500 (2025-12-01); Population Connection Action Fund PAC $1,000 (2025-09-17). Schedule A, line 11C, raw filings. Not in the first pass.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · fec.gov

Interests on record
- League of Conservation Voters (Q2 2026, $230,000): support for the Energy Bills Relief Act, the AI Data Center Site Selection Transparency Act, the Lowering Utility Bills Act, the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act (S. 4111) and the Moving Transit Forward Act (S. 3455); opposition to the Water Systems PFAS Liability Protection Act, the House farm bill (H.R. 7567) and the BUILD America 250 Act (H.R. 8870).
  Source: lda.gov
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Q2 2026, $652,972): the Right to Contraception Act (S. 422 / H.R. 999), a Senate resolution on mifepristone, foreign-assistance bills and judicial nominations.
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: Right to Contraception Act (S. 422 / H.R. 999) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Energy Bills Relief Act; Lowering Utility Bills Act; AI Data Center Site Selection Transparency Act (H.R. 8488) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act (S. 4111 / H.R. 7960) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Opposes: Water Systems PFAS Liability Protection Act (H.R. 1267) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Opposes: House farm bill (H.R. 7567); BUILD America 250 Act (H.R. 8870) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act (S.701, March 8, 2023; also 2013-2021 versions) and the Right to Contraception Act (S.1999, 2023; S.4381, 2024); voted Yea on cloture to proceed to S.4132, the 2022 Women's Health Protection Act, May 11, 2022 (rejected 49-51).

How it would reach them: A federal statutory right to abortion and to contraception would override state restrictions; it reaches abortion and contraception providers such as Planned Parenthood affiliates and OB-GYNs as permitted services, and patients as access.
Timing: Cosponsorships 2013-2024; vote May 2022; before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · senate.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (S. 2938 as amended), June 23, 2022 (65-33); original cosponsor of the Background Check Expansion Act (S.494, 2023).

How it would reach them: Universal background checks and the 2022 law's changes reach gun sellers and buyers; Giffords' agenda is gun-violence prevention. Giffords' own 2026 filing was not pulled.
Timing: 2022-2023, before the September 2025 contribution.

Sources: senate.gov · govinfo.gov

For their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on the Inflation Reduction Act (H.R. 5376), Aug. 7, 2022 (50-50, with the vice president's vote).

How it would reach them: The law's clean-energy tax credits reach renewable developers and manufacturers; LCV, NRDC and EDF's affiliates are spending against his opponent. LCV's 2026 filing lists bills to restore renewable-energy provisions.
Timing: Vote August 2022, before the contributions.

Sources: senate.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Industry

Ohioans shouldn't be forced to subsidize these costs and Ohioans — not Jon Husted and his billionaire friends — should get to decide if data centers are built in their community

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Calls for Ohio to end its data-center tax break and for data centers to pay the full cost of their electricity and process their water (2026).

How it would reach them: LCV lists federal bills on data-center siting transparency and utility bills; the Ohio tax break is a state matter, so the overlap is in aim, not venue.
Timing: Statements June-August 2026, after the contributions.

Sources: ohiocapitaljournal.com · signalohio.org · lda.gov
Service and health-care union PACs (SEIU, UNITE HERE, UFCW) · $30K · 6 alignments
$30,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The federal PACs of the unions of hospital, nursing-home and home-care workers (SEIU), hotel, food-service and airport workers (UNITE HERE) and grocery and meatpacking workers (UFCW). SEIU COPE's $90,000 independent expenditure naming him was made Oct. 21, 2024, not in this race. Workers Vote, a super PAC whose 2025-26 receipts through Aug. 31, 2026 include $1,500,000 from UNITE HERE PAC and line-17 receipts from UNITE HERE Local 274 ($254,454.84) and the UNITE HERE Action Fund ($201,040.80), filed $230,796.10 in notices supporting him Sept. 3-21, 2026. UFCW's Working Families Advocacy Project gave Senate Majority PAC $1,125,000.
SEIU COPE $10,000 (2026-01-23 and 2026-06-29); UNITE HERE TIP Campaign Committee $10,000 (2025-09-26 and 2026-03-25); UFCW Active Ballot Club $10,000 (2026-02-11). Schedule A, line 11C; re-checked against the raw filings.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · fec.gov · fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Interests on record
- SEIU's second-quarter 2026 in-house report ($300,000): curbing the Medicaid cuts in H.R. 1 and repealing them; the Biden-era nursing-home staffing rule and the Nurses Belong in Nursing Homes Act; reintroduction of the Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act; the Raise the Wage Act (S. 1332); the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act (S. 1352); the Richard L. Trumka PRO Act of 2025 (S. 852); home-care worker bills; immigration status bills; and, under banking, 'Opposed HR 3633 the Clarity Act that sets up a weak regulatory scheme for crypto currency.'
  Source: lda.gov
- UNITE HERE's second-quarter 2026 report ($40,000): the CLARITY Act and prediction markets in it, with Medicaid, the PRO Act, pensions, airport wages, Amtrak and Temporary Protected Status. UFCW's second-quarter 2026 report ($200,000): the Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act, the Protecting America's Meatpacking Workers Act, the Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores Act (H.R. 4966 / S. 3892) and surveillance pricing.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: Repeal or reversal of the Medicaid cuts in H.R. 1 (P.L. 119-21) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Richard L. Trumka PRO Act of 2025 (S. 852 / H.R. 20) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Raise the Wage Act (S. 1332 / H.R. 2743) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act (S. 1352 / H.R. 2736) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act (reintroduction); nursing-home minimum staffing rule (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Opposes: Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (H.R. 3633) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: CLARITY Act, including prediction markets (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores Act (H.R. 4966 / S. 3892) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Protecting America's Meatpacking Workers Act; Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

His vote was the determining factor for more pressure on rural health care.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Opposition to the Medicaid provisions of the 2025 reconciliation law and to his opponent's vote for it (Ironton, July 2026); sponsor of the Stabilize Medicaid and CHIP Coverage Act (S.3138, Oct. 26, 2023).

How it would reach them: Medicaid pays hospitals, nursing homes and home-care agencies that employ SEIU members and pays Medicaid-funded home-care wages directly; reversing the cuts would raise federal outlays and reach those payrolls and members' own coverage.
Timing: Position public Aug. 18, 2025 (launch) and July 11, 2026; SEIU gave Jan. 23 and June 29, 2026.

Sources: irontontribune.com · govinfo.gov · lda.gov · statenews.org

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act (S.1113, March 30, 2023, and in 2017, 2019 and 2021).

How it would reach them: Minimum nurse-to-patient ratios would require hospitals to employ more nurses per shift; that reaches nurses and the unions that represent them as jobs and workload, and hospitals as payroll cost. SEIU lists the bill's reintroduction.
Timing: Bills 2017-2023, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the PRO Act in three Congresses: S.1306 (introduced May 2, 2019), S.420 (Feb. 24, 2021) and S.567, the Richard L. Trumka PRO Act (Feb. 28, 2023). The Senate sponsors were Patty Murray (116th, 117th) and Bernie Sanders (118th); the IBEW's endorsement describes him as having introduced it, which is the union's wording, not the bill record.

How it would reach them: SEIU and UNITE HERE list the PRO Act. Its penalties for employer interference and its broader employee test would raise the cost to employers of resisting organizing in hotels, hospitals and food service and reach the unions as membership and dues.
Timing: Original cosponsorships 2019-2023, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the Raise the Wage Act of 2023 (S.2488, July 25, 2023) and of its 2017, 2019 and 2021 versions.

How it would reach them: A higher federal minimum wage raises pay floors for low-wage service workers (home care, food service, grocery) and raises labor costs for their employers. SEIU lists the 2025 version (S. 1332).
Timing: Bills 2017-2023, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2024 (S.4363, May 16, 2024).

How it would reach them: A federal floor for public-sector bargaining reaches SEIU's public-employee locals as members and bargaining power.
Timing: Bill May 2024, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · lda.gov

Mixed Industry

That's because crypto isn't money. It's designed for speculation.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Crypto: as Banking Committee chair (Feb. 15, 2022) he said crypto 'isn't money' and is 'designed for speculation'; he voted Nay on H.J.Res. 109 overturning the SEC's crypto-custody bulletin SAB 121 (May 16, 2024, passed 60-38). As a 2026 candidate: 'Cryptocurrency is a part of America's economy.'

How it would reach them: SEIU opposes the CLARITY Act as weak regulation; his Senate record points the same way, and his 2025-26 statements are noncommittal. Crypto market rules reach members mainly through retirement and pension holdings; the record here does not measure that exposure.
Timing: Record 2022 and 2024; 2025 statement per WOSU Oct. 13, 2025; before the 2026 contributions.

Sources: brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · senate.gov · wosu.org · lda.gov
Other corporate and trade-association PACs (Western & Southern, Thrivent, Ohio Credit Union League, Sammons, Vorys and smaller) · $30K · 2 alignments
$29,500 as filed · PAC

The PACs of a Cincinnati life insurer (Western & Southern), a fraternal-benefit insurer (Thrivent), the Ohio credit unions' trade group, a Dallas annuity and life-insurance holding company (Sammons), a Columbus law firm and three smaller companies or associations.
Western and Southern Life Insurance Co. PAC $5,000 (2026-06-30); Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Employee PAC $5,000 (2026-05-05); Ohio Credit Union League PAC $5,000 (2026-04-30); VSS & P Fed PAC (Vorys) $5,000 (2026-04-15); Sammons Enterprises PAC $3,000 (2026-05-20); Psychology PAC $2,500 (2025-11-19); PCG Employee Owners PAC $2,000 and Alterman Management Group PAC $2,000 (2026-05-20). Schedule A, line 11C; re-checked against the raw filings. O'Neill and Associates PAC ($1,500, 2026-04-30) and the law-firm PACs of Duane Morris ($2,500) and Roetzel & Andress ($1,000), which gave to the joint fundraising committee, are not in the total.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- Ohio Credit Union League (Q2 2026, through John McKechnie LLC, $10,000): 'Dodd-Frank Act implementation and reform; credit union tax exemption; Federal Reserve payment system; consumer protection statutes and regulations; Federal Credit Union Act.' The national association (Q2 2026, $1,290,000 in-house) leads with 'Protect the credit union tax exemption' and supports regulatory relief and field-of-membership expansion.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Thrivent (Q2 2026, $120,000 in-house): data-privacy updates to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and artificial-intelligence issues in life insurance, plus H.R. 2891. No 2026 filing was found for Western & Southern or Sammons under the names tried.
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: Credit union tax exemption (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Dodd-Frank Act implementation and reform; Federal Credit Union Act; Federal Reserve payment system (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Credit union regulatory relief and field-of-membership expansion (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act data-privacy updates; AI rules for life insurance (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: With J.D. Vance, wrote the Federal Reserve on April 20, 2023 urging access to the Bank Term Funding Program's liquidity for Ohio's privately insured, state-chartered credit unions.

How it would reach them: Access to Fed liquidity lowers funding risk for the credit unions that belong to the Ohio league; the league's filing lists the Federal Reserve payment system and Federal Credit Union Act, not this program by name.
Timing: Letter April 2023, before the April 2026 contribution.

Sources: brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · lda.gov

Mixed Industry

When we created the CFPB, we made sure it included the Office of Servicemember Affairs.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on the Dodd-Frank conference report (H.R. 4173), which created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, on July 15, 2010 (60-39); as Banking Committee chair he later wrote of it in the first person plural.

How it would reach them: CFPB and Dodd-Frank rules reach credit unions' and insurers' consumer products; the league lists 'Dodd-Frank Act implementation and reform' without a stated side. No position of his on the credit-union tax exemption was found.
Timing: Vote 2010; statement 2024; before the contributions.

Sources: senate.gov · banking.senate.gov · lda.gov
Rail labor PACs (SMART-TD, SMART PAL, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys) · $20K · 3 alignments
$20,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The political committees of the unions representing freight-train conductors (SMART Transportation Division), sheet-metal and rail workers, railroad signal maintainers, and the association of lawyers who bring railroad-worker injury cases.
SMART TD PAC $5,000 (2025-09-17); International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers PAL $5,000 (2025-09-17); Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PAC $5,000 (2025-09-30); Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys PAC $5,000 (2026-05-05). As filed on Schedule A, line 11C; re-checked against the raw filings.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · govinfo.gov · commerce.senate.gov · smart-union.org · lda.gov

Interests on record
- A statutory two-person minimum crew on freight trains; SMART-TD, on the 2026 reintroduction: 'Senators Husted and Cantwell are using this bill to make a minimum staffing level requirement of no less than two FRA-certified railroad professionals on every train part of federal law.'
  Source: smart-union.org
- The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen's own second-quarter 2026 filing ($60,000 in-house) lists the Railway Safety Act of 2025, Railroad Retirement Board funding and the federal signal and grade-crossing rules (49 CFR Parts 234 and 236).
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: Railway Safety Act of 2025 (S. 3903 / H.R. 929), including a two-person crew minimum (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · smart-union.org · commerce.senate.gov
- Supports: Railroad Retirement Board funding (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: FRA signal and grade-crossing rules, 49 CFR Parts 234 and 236 (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Rail safety isn't partisan. I've said from the beginning, I'll work with everyone to get this done and make sure disastrous derailments like the one in East Palestine never happen again.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Railway Safety Act of 2023 (S.576, introduced March 1, 2023, with J.D. Vance and others as original cosponsors), written after the East Palestine derailment; the Senate version required a two-person crew, more inspections and hazardous-materials safeguards.

How it would reach them: A crew minimum in statute keeps the conductor position that SMART-TD represents on every freight train regardless of future FRA rulemaking, and more frequent inspections and defect detectors add work for signal maintainers and carmen. It raises crew and inspection costs for the Class I railroads. Koch Government Affairs, an arm of a principal funder of AFP Action, lists the 2025-26 Railway Safety Act (S. 3903 / H.R. 929) on its 2026 lobbying report without stating a side.
Timing: Bill March 2023; release May 8, 2023; both before the September 2025 and May 2026 contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · ideastream.org · smart-union.org · lda.gov · lda.gov

Mixed Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on H.Con.Res. 119 (Dec. 1, 2022), which would have provided seven days of sick leave for railroad employees under the imposed agreement (rejected 52-43 under a three-fifths requirement), and Yea on H.J.Res. 100 imposing the agreement (80-15).

How it would reach them: Sick leave for rail workers would have raised carriers' labor costs and reached the members of the operating and craft unions directly; the imposed agreement ended the threat of a strike on terms the unions' members had not all ratified. The two votes point different ways for the unions.
Timing: Votes December 2022, before the contributions.

Sources: senate.gov · senate.gov · govinfo.gov

For their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the Ending Passenger Rail Forced Arbitration Act (S.3400, March 5, 2020).

How it would reach them: Ending forced arbitration in Amtrak's passenger terms would let injured passengers sue in court, which is work for injury lawyers such as the Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys' members; the American Association for Justice lists the 2026 version (S. 5238).
Timing: Bill 2020, before the contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · lda.gov
Jeffrey Bleich (Anthropic) · $17K · 1 alignment
$17,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

General counsel of Anthropic, the artificial-intelligence company, and a former U.S. ambassador to Australia (Wikipedia).
One $17,000 contribution to the Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund, his joint fundraising committee with the Ohio Democratic Party, America Works Federal PAC and the DSCC (see that entry) on June 10, 2026, earmarked through ActBlue (filed as attorney, Anthropic, Piedmont, California). The campaign's July 2026 report attributes $3,500 of it to Friends of Sherrod Brown as a memo entry (June 14, 2026); that $3,500 is part of the $17,000, not in addition to it.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · en.wikipedia.org · anthropic.com · lda.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- Anthropic's 2026 LDA filings list AI legislation, regulations and standards, export controls and chip security (S. 1705/H.R. 3447 Chip Security Act; S. 4456/H.R. 6875 AI OVERWATCH Act), AI energy infrastructure, supply chain, interconnection and permitting, Defense Department procurement, and in Q1 2026 an "Artificial Intelligence Moratorium" and a federal AI framework.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- On Feb. 11, 2026 Anthropic said it would pay for all grid upgrades needed to connect its data centers, including costs otherwise passed to consumers, and work to cover demand-driven price effects on ratepayers; it also said it supports federal permitting reform and faster transmission and interconnection.
  Source: anthropic.com
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Anthropic: AI energy infrastructure; supply chain, interconnection and permitting (Q1-Q2 2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Anthropic: export controls; S. 1705/H.R. 3447 Chip Security Act; S. 4456/H.R. 6875 AI OVERWATCH Act (Q2 2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Anthropic: AI moratorium; federal AI framework (Q1 2026 LDA filing, Fierce Government Relations) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Anthropic: data centers cover their own grid-upgrade costs and demand-driven price effects on ratepayers (company statement, Feb. 11, 2026) (federal)
  Source: anthropic.com
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Ohioans shouldn't be forced to subsidize these costs and Ohioans — not Jon Husted and his billionaire friends — should get to decide if data centers are built in their community

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Says data centers should pay the full cost of their electricity use, Ohio's data-center tax break should end, and local communities should decide on projects (July-August 2026).

How it would reach them: On the electricity-cost half, Anthropic's own Feb. 11, 2026 commitment is that its data centers pay their grid-upgrade costs and cover price effects on consumers, the same outcome his position asks for. Anthropic's statement does not address state tax breaks or local approval, so that half is not matched.
Timing: Anthropic statement Feb. 11, 2026; his position public July 8, 2026; the gift June 10, 2026.

Sources: ohiocapitaljournal.com · anthropic.com · docquery.fec.gov
American Association for Justice PAC · $10K · 4 alignments
$10,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The PAC of the American Association for Justice, the membership organization of plaintiffs' trial lawyers (FEC organization type: membership organization).
Two $5,000 contributions on 2025-09-03, as filed on Schedule A, line 11C; re-checked against the raw filing.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · senate.gov · senate.gov

Interests on record
- The association's second-quarter 2026 in-house report ($1,840,000; the Q2 box is the one checked on the form, not Q1 as a source check suggested) lists forced arbitration for consumers, patients, service members and workers and in financial services; the STABLE Act (H.R. 2392), GENIUS Act (S. 394) and CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633); the Ending Passenger Rail Forced Arbitration Act (S. 5238); private-equity ownership of nursing homes; Camp Lejeune claims; Section 230 repeal and children's online safety; the Tackling Predatory Litigation Funding Act (S. 1281 / H.R. 3512); and truck-crash liability bills.
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: Ending forced arbitration for consumers, patients, service members and workers, including in financial services (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Ending Passenger Rail Forced Arbitration Act (S. 5238) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: STABLE Act (H.R. 2392), GENIUS Act (S. 394) and CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633), as liability and consumer-remedy issues (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Opposes: Tackling Predatory Litigation Funding Act (S. 1281 / H.R. 3512) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Private-equity ownership of nursing homes; Camp Lejeune Justice Act claims (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Repeal of Section 230 (S. 3546) and children's online safety bills (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Forced arbitration clauses let big companies hide from accountability and silence victims, giving more power to Wall Street over workers and their families.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Arbitration Fairness for Consumers Act (S.630, Feb. 28, 2019; S.3755, March 3, 2022), which would bar pre-dispute arbitration agreements and class-action waivers in consumer financial contracts.

How it would reach them: Voiding arbitration clauses and class waivers would let consumers bring class actions against banks, lenders and card issuers, which is work for plaintiffs' firms and a litigation cost for those companies.
Timing: Bills 2019 and 2022, before the September 2025 contribution.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act (S.1376, April 27, 2023; also S.610 in 2019 and S.505 in 2021) and of the Ending Passenger Rail Forced Arbitration Act (S.3400, March 5, 2020).

How it would reach them: The FAIR Act would void pre-dispute arbitration in employment, consumer, antitrust and civil-rights disputes; it reaches plaintiffs' firms as caseload and employers and sellers as litigation exposure. AAJ lists the 2026 rail bill (S. 5238).
Timing: Bills 2019-2023, before the contribution.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Nay on H.J.Res. 111, which repealed the CFPB's arbitration rule, Oct. 24, 2017 (passed 50-50 with the vice president's vote).

How it would reach them: The rule would have barred class-action waivers in consumer financial contracts; keeping it would have raised the number of class actions against financial companies.
Timing: Vote October 2017, before the contribution.

Sources: senate.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Industry

When we created the CFPB, we made sure it included the Office of Servicemember Affairs.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on the Dodd-Frank conference report (H.R. 4173), which created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, on July 15, 2010 (60-39); as Banking Committee chair he later wrote of it in the first person plural.

How it would reach them: A funded consumer regulator issues rules and enforcement findings that private suits can build on; that reaches consumer-finance litigation generally and the companies subject to it.
Timing: Vote July 2010; statement June 12, 2024; before the contribution.

Sources: senate.gov · banking.senate.gov
Health Jobs Justice (Sen. Jon Ossoff's leadership PAC) · $10K · 0 alignments
$10,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

A Washington, D.C. political committee whose Form 1A (Oct. 30, 2024) names Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia as its leadership-PAC sponsor and lists three Ossoff joint fundraising committees as affiliates. Its July-December 2025 report shows receipts from individuals through those committees and from union PACs (Operating Engineers, IBEW, $5,000 each).
Two $5,000 contributions to Friends of Sherrod Brown on Aug. 18, 2025 (primary and general), Schedule A line 11C, plus $5,000 to the Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund on Dec. 30, 2025 that the campaign's reports do not attribute to it.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Interests on record
- A leadership PAC of another Democratic senator; no business agenda of its own.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Ohio Corn and Wheat Growers Association PAC · $10K · 3 alignments
$10,000 as filed · PAC · In state

The PAC of the Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers Association. Its website lists tax policy, water quality, trade, ethanol, infrastructure, the farm bill and risk management as policy areas and year-round E15 access as a top priority.
$5,000 on 2026-03-23 and $5,000 on 2026-06-15, Schedule A, line 11C; re-checked against the raw filings. The FEC codes the sponsor as a corporation.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · ohiocornandwheat.org · lda.gov · lda.gov · govinfo.gov

Interests on record
- Year-round sale of E15 gasoline. The National Corn Growers Association's 2026 report through Jim Massie & Partners lists the Renewable Fuel Standard and H.R. 1346 / S. 593, the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025.
  Sources: ohiocornandwheat.org · lda.gov
- The NCGA's own second-quarter 2026 report ($130,000) lists implementation of H.R. 1, the 2026 farm bill and international trade.
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025 (H.R. 1346 / S. 593), year-round E15 (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · ohiocornandwheat.org
- Lobbies on: Renewable Fuel Standard; bills to amend or repeal it (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Implementation of H.R. 1 (P.L. 119-21); 2026 farm bill; international trade (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Year-round E15 access, water quality and farm-bill priorities (state association) (Ohio)
  Source: ohiocornandwheat.org
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2023 (S.785, March 14, 2023; sponsor Deb Fischer) and of the 2022 version (S.5145, Nov. 29, 2022), which would allow year-round E15 sales.

How it would reach them: Lifting the summer restriction on E15 raises the ethanol share of gasoline sold, and ethanol plants buy corn; that reaches corn growers' prices and volumes. It does not reach wheat growers. Chevron, the American Petroleum Institute and Koch Government Affairs also list S. 593 in 2026 without a stated side.
Timing: Bills 2022 and 2023, before the March and June 2026 contributions.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Industry

American tax dollars should support American farmers – not imported feedstocks.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Announced a bipartisan bill to bar federal biofuel incentives for fuel made from imported feedstocks (Sept. 25, 2024); original cosponsor of the Renewable Fuel for Ocean-Going Vessels Act (S.3818, Feb. 27, 2024).

How it would reach them: Limiting biofuel credits to domestic feedstocks raises demand for U.S. corn and soybean oil against imported used cooking oil; extending the fuel program to ships widens the biofuel market. Both reach growers through prices.
Timing: Positions public 2024, before the 2026 contributions.

Sources: brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · govinfo.gov · lda.gov

Mixed Industry

They see more money going out the door than coming in. Part of the reason for that is these tariffs which were a tax on darn near everything they buy

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Criticism of the broad 2025 tariffs as a cost to Ohio households, with a call to rebate tariff revenue to Ohioans.

How it would reach them: The growers list trade among their priorities without a stated side on these pages. Whether tariffs reach corn exports depends on trading partners' responses, which this record does not document.
Timing: Position public March 2, 2026, three weeks before the first contribution.

Sources: statenews.org · lda.gov
United Steelworkers Political Action Fund · $10K · 7 alignments
$10,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The political action committee of the United Steelworkers (FEC organization type: labor organization; Pittsburgh), the union at Cleveland-Cliffs and other Ohio mills. The USW endorsed him on Dec. 15, 2025. Its independent expenditures naming him ($2,684.50) were made in August to October 2024, not in the 2026 race.
Two $5,000 contributions on 2026-05-05 (primary and general), as filed on Friends of Sherrod Brown's Schedule A, line 11C (raw filing FEC-1997409).

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · usw.org · clevelandcliffs.com · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov

Interests on record
- Federal lobbying through The Wessel Group ($10,000 a quarter). The first-quarter 2026 report (62a04c41) and the second-quarter 2026 report (4aea8159; the Q2 box is the one checked on the form, and neither is marked as an amendment) list: trade law enforcement; the surge of steel and aluminum imports; Chinese overcapacity; support for the Eliminating Global Market Distortions to Protect American Jobs Act and the Fighting Trade Cheats Act of 2025 (H.R. 1284/S. 3808); support for Trade Adjustment Assistance renewal; the melted-and-poured standard for steel under Buy America; reducing the scope and length of employer lockouts; and (Q2) the SHIPS for America Act, the Building Ships in America Act and opposition to Jones Act waivers. Its Q1 2025 report adds implementation of the Build America, Buy America Act title of the 2021 infrastructure law.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: Fighting Trade Cheats Act of 2025 (H.R. 1284 / S. 3808) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Eliminating Global Market Distortions to Protect American Jobs Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Trade Adjustment Assistance renewal (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Melted-and-poured standard for steel under Buy America; Buy America in a surface transportation bill and a Water Resources Development Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: SHIPS for America Act (H.R. 3151 / S. 1541) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Building Ships in America Act (S. 1536) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Opposes: Presidential Jones Act waivers (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Section 301 action on Chinese overcapacity; USMCA Rapid Response Mechanism worker-rights cases (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Actions to reduce the scope and length of employer lockouts (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

We must pass our bipartisan legislation to reinstate tariffs on Mexican steel.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the Stop Mexico's Steel Surge Act (S.3917, introduced March 12, 2024; sponsor Tom Cotton), which would reinstate the 25 percent Section 232 tariff on Mexican steel; at a June 26, 2024 event at Cleveland-Cliffs with USW leaders he called for its passage.

How it would reach them: A 25 percent tariff on Mexican steel would raise the price domestic mills can charge for competing products and the volume they ship, which reaches USW-represented mills such as Cleveland-Cliffs and their members' hours and pay. It would raise input costs for steel buyers (auto and appliance plants, contractors). The American Petroleum Institute, a funder of a super PAC opposing him, lobbied in 2026 for relief from the Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs.
Timing: Position public March 12, 2024 (introduction release) and June 26, 2024, before the May 5, 2026 contribution.

Sources: govinfo.gov · brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · clevelandcliffs.com · brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Fighting Trade Cheats Act of 2023 (S.805, March 15, 2023) and the Eliminating Global Market Distortions To Protect American Jobs Act of 2021 (S.1187, April 15, 2021); both titles recur on the USW's 2026 lobbying reports.

How it would reach them: Both bills widen antidumping and countervailing-duty remedies against imports sold below cost or subsidized. Higher duties on such imports raise prices and volumes for the domestic producers that file the cases and reach their unionized workforces; importers and downstream buyers pay the duties.
Timing: Bills introduced 2021 and 2023, before the 2026 contribution.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.gov

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Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Leveling the Playing Field Act (S.891, March 26, 2015). Its subjects (adverse inferences against parties that do not cooperate in antidumping cases; the definition of material injury) were enacted as Title V, the 'American Trade Enforcement Effectiveness Act', of the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 (P.L. 114-27, June 29, 2015); he voted Yea on cloture on that bill on June 24, 2015 (76-22).

How it would reach them: Easier findings of dumping and injury raise the duties paid on imports found to be dumped or subsidized, which reaches the domestic producers and their unionized workforces that bring such cases.
Timing: Enacted 2015, before the 2026 contribution.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · senate.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

It's simple: American tax dollars should go toward American-made products that support American jobs. Period.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Build America, Buy America Act (S.2056 in 2019; S.1303, April 22, 2021), which his office reported was enacted in the 2021 infrastructure law; he voted Yea on that law (H.R. 3684) on Aug. 10, 2021.

How it would reach them: Domestic-content rules require iron, steel and manufactured products in federally funded infrastructure to be made in the United States; that reaches domestic mills' orders and their steelworkers, and raises costs for projects that would have used imported steel.
Timing: Bill 2019-2021; release dated Nov. 15, 2021; before the contribution.

Sources: brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · govinfo.gov · senate.gov · lda.gov

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Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2024 (S.4582, June 18, 2024).

How it would reach them: Trade Adjustment Assistance pays retraining and income support to workers displaced by imports, including laid-off steel and aluminum workers; it reaches those workers, not the mills.
Timing: Bill June 2024, before the contribution.

Sources: govinfo.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Too many times in Ohio and around the country, we've seen corporations lock workers out of their contracts and kick them off the health coverage they earned and negotiated at the bargaining table.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Striking and Locked Out Workers Healthcare Protection Act (S.710, March 8, 2023; earlier versions S.3747 and S.4289 in 2022), which would keep health coverage for workers during a lockout.

How it would reach them: The USW's filings name reducing the scope and length of lockouts. Keeping coverage in place during a lockout lowers the cost to locked-out members and raises the cost to an employer of using one; it does not change wages.
Timing: Bills 2022-2023, before the contribution.

Sources: govinfo.gov · brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · lda.gov

Mixed Industry

They see more money going out the door than coming in. Part of the reason for that is these tariffs which were a tax on darn near everything they buy

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Criticism of the broad 2025 tariffs as a cost to Ohio households, with a call to return tariff revenue to Ohioans.

How it would reach them: The article covers the broad 2025 tariffs only. The union's filings support steel and aluminum trade enforcement; whether his March 2026 criticism reaches steel tariffs is not stated in that source, so no effect on steel is recorded from it.
Timing: Position public March 2, 2026, before the May 5, 2026 contribution.

Source: statenews.org
Amalgamated Bank PAC · $5,000 · 3 alignments
$5,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The PAC of Amalgamated Bank, a New York bank with $9,409,107,000 in assets at June 30, 2026 per the FDIC. The bank is the depository named on the Form 1s of the campaign, the Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund and America Works Federal PAC, and the campaign reports monthly interest from it. Fairshake, LCV Victory Fund and EDF Action Votes also report other receipts from it.
$5,000 on 2026-03-31, Schedule A, line 11C. Separately, the campaign reports $237,785.21 in interest from Amalgamated Bank in nine line-15 entries, Oct. 31, 2025 to June 30, 2026; re-added from the raw filings.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · banks.data.fdic.gov · lda.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Interests on record
- The bank's second-quarter 2026 report (through Capitol Counsel, $30,000): 'reciprocal deposits, banking regulation, the Bank Secrecy Act, anti-money laundering legislation, and consumer banking issues.'
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Reciprocal deposits; Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money-laundering legislation; consumer banking issues (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

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Americans have watched executives take their money, run banks into the ground, and get away with it too many times before. It's time for CEOs to face consequences for their actions, just like everyone else.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: As Banking Committee chair, sponsored the RECOUP Act (S.2190, June 22, 2023) to claw back pay from executives of failed banks; NBC News reported Tim Scott as his partner on it, while the bill record lists no cosponsors.

How it would reach them: The bill's clawback and governance provisions apply above $10 billion in total consolidated assets. Amalgamated, at $9.41 billion, sits below that line, so the bill as drafted would not reach it.
Timing: Position public June 2023, before the March 2026 contribution.

Sources: nbcnews.com · govinfo.gov · debevoisefintechblog.com · banks.data.fdic.gov

Mixed Industry

When we created the CFPB, we made sure it included the Office of Servicemember Affairs.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on the Dodd-Frank conference report (H.R. 4173), which created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, on July 15, 2010 (60-39); as Banking Committee chair he later wrote of it in the first person plural.

How it would reach them: CFPB rules reach every bank's deposit and lending products, including this one's; the bank's filing lists consumer banking issues without a stated side.
Timing: Vote July 2010; statement June 12, 2024; before the contribution.

Sources: senate.gov · banking.senate.gov · lda.gov

Mixed Industry

I'm glad to see the CFPB continue its work to eliminate junk fees so that Americans can keep more of their hard-earned money.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Welcomed the CFPB's January 2024 proposal to limit overdraft fees.

How it would reach them: An overdraft-fee limit lowers fee income for banks that charge such fees; whether and how much Amalgamated charges is not documented here.
Timing: Statement Jan. 17, 2024, before the contribution.

Sources: brown.senate.gov · web.archive.org · lda.gov
National Association of Realtors Congressional Fund · $0 · 3 alignments
$0 as filed · super PAC · Out of state

The independent-expenditure committee of the National Association of Realtors, funded by the association's treasury. NAR is the trade association of real estate agents and brokers.
No independent expenditures in 2025-26 through its Aug. 31, 2026 report or in the 2026 notice file through Sept. 22; the fund received $18,600,000 from the National Association of Realtors in five transfers in 2025-26. Its $2,396,881.58 supporting him was spent Sept. 25, 2024, in the last race.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · fec.gov · fec.gov · lda.gov · housingwire.com

Interests on record
- NAR's first-quarter 2026 in-house report ($15,460,000, filing 41d2d272) lists housing-supply bills including S. 2651 (ROAD to Housing Act), the YIMBY Act and the 'Yes in God's Backyard' Act; GSE reform; the 1031 like-kind exchange and the Section 121 capital-gains exclusion; flood insurance; and, under labor, H.R. 3495 (Direct Seller and Real Estate Agent Harmonization Act) and S. 2228 (Modern Worker Empowerment Act). Its outside firms' Q2 2026 reports add the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (H.R. 6644) and the More Homes on the Market Act (H.R. 1340 / S. 3332).
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: ROAD to Housing Act (S. 2651 / H.R. 6337) and 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (H.R. 6644) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: YIMBY Act and Yes in God's Backyard Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Protecting the 1031 like-kind exchange and the Section 121 exclusion; More Homes on the Market Act (H.R. 1340 / S. 3332) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: Direct Seller and Real Estate Agent Harmonization Act (H.R. 3495); Modern Worker Empowerment Act (S. 2228) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: National Flood Insurance Program reauthorization; GSE reform (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
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all-cash buyers – including out-of-state investors funded by cheap Wall Street cash – drive home prices higher

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Housing Supply Fund Act of 2024 (S.3928) and the Yes in God's Backyard Act (S.3910), both introduced March 12, 2024, alongside down-payment proposals in a Banking Committee statement the same day.

How it would reach them: NAR lists the 'Yes in God's Backyard' Act by name. More housing units and first-time buyers with down-payment help raise the number of sales on which agents are paid commissions.
Timing: Bills March 12, 2024, before the fund's 2024 spending and its 2026 receipts.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · banking.senate.gov · lda.gov

Mixed Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of the Stop Predatory Investing Act (S.2224, July 11, 2023), aimed at large investors' purchases of single-family homes.

How it would reach them: Measures that discourage investor purchases reach investor buyers, who also transact through agents, so they point the other way for some members' commission volume while increasing homes available to owner-occupants.
Timing: Bill July 2023, before the fund's 2026 receipts.

Sources: govinfo.gov · lda.gov

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An individual performing any service shall be considered an employee... unless—(A) the individual is free from control and direction... (B) the service is performed outside the usual course of the business... (C) the individual is customarily engaged in an independently established trade...

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Original cosponsor of the PRO Act in three Congresses: S.1306 (introduced May 2, 2019), S.420 (Feb. 24, 2021) and S.567, the Richard L. Trumka PRO Act (Feb. 28, 2023). The Senate sponsors were Patty Murray (116th, 117th) and Bernie Sanders (118th); the IBEW's endorsement describes him as having introduced it, which is the union's wording, not the bill record.

How it would reach them: Most agents work for brokerages as independent contractors, and NAR lobbies for bills to keep that status. Under the PRO Act's test, an agent selling homes inside a brokerage's usual course of business would count as an employee for collective-bargaining purposes; it would not change pay or tax status on its own.
Timing: Original cosponsorships 2019-2023, before the fund's 2026 receipts.

Sources: govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · en.wikipedia.org · lda.gov

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