Four printed candidates are running in Ohio's special U.S. Senate election. Write-in records are linked separately.
The Stated Record analysis: Toss-up
Updated September 3, 2026
Who is running?
Printed ballot candidates
Sherrod BrownDemocratic
Jon HustedRepublican
Greg LevyOther-party candidate
William B. RedpathLibertarian
Declared write-ins are listed separately by the election authority.
Source: Franklin County Board of Elections general candidate list
Checked September 2, 2026
Voter guide
The candidates, side by side
Background comes from government or official office records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so. Goals are summarized from each campaign's own platform page and stay attributed to the campaign. The record lines are official votes, sponsorships, and filings with the government source attached. Money is shown as filed, by the type the FEC records for the contributing committee, and is not evidence of why any position was taken. Money rows are itemized receipts from political committees; transfers from joint fundraising committees and the conduit entries for earmarked individual contributions sit on their own rows and are not additive with the rest; other memo entries, reimbursements, and receipts from organizations that are not political committees are excluded; each candidate's note gives the filing window and the reconciliation to the FEC summary.
Receipts from committees on lines 11B, 11C and 12 of his principal committee's filings for the 2025-2026 cycle through June 30, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded type of the contributing committee. Line 11B, party committees: one row totalling $200.00; Line 11C, other political committees: 222 rows totalling $861,022.72, leaving out 6 memo entries, which restate money counted elsewhere; Line 12, transfers from authorized committees: 27 rows totalling $6,300,061.93, leaving out 5,980 memo entries, which restate money counted elsewhere. The rows sum to $7,161,284.65. Each line's itemized sum matches the committee's own summary total for that line. Donations individuals made through ActBlue or WinRed are individual contributions and are not in the table, and neither is any other individual contribution. The rows sum to 7,161,284.65 dollars.
Speaker of the Ohio House from 2005 to 2009; the Ohio House's own list of Speakers records it. Ohio House of Representatives
His Senate biography says he later served in the Ohio Senate, as secretary of state from 2011 for two terms, and as lieutenant governor, where his campaign says he founded InnovateOhio and started the TechCred job-training program. Office of Senator Jon Husted, Husted for Senate
His biography says he began life in a foster home before being adopted, and was raised in Williams County. Office of Senator Jon Husted
What they say they want to do
A rule that data centers and other very large electricity users, not households or small businesses, pay for the grid upgrades built to serve them. Office of Senator Jon Husted
A two-year extension of the enhanced ACA premium tax credits, paired with changes he says would reduce fraud and lower premiums. Office of Senator Jon Husted
Receipts from committees on lines 11B, 11C and 12 of his principal committee's filings for the 2025-2026 cycle through June 30, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded type of the contributing committee. Line 11B, party committees: 2 rows totalling $62,050.00; Line 11C, other political committees: 820 rows totalling $2,320,510.00, leaving out 11 memo entries, which restate money counted elsewhere; Line 12, transfers from authorized committees: 56 rows totalling $5,675,891.08, leaving out 2,998 memo entries, which restate money counted elsewhere. The rows sum to $8,058,451.08. Each line's itemized sum matches the committee's own summary total for that line. Donations individuals made through ActBlue or WinRed are individual contributions and are not in the table, and neither is any other individual contribution. The rows sum to 8,058,451.08 dollars.
Holds no public office. His campaign describes him as a community organizer, singer, veteran, mover, husband and father, raised in Akron. Greg Levy for Senate
His campaign says he founded the Paul Robeson Revolutionary Choir, which tours church and community venues. Greg Levy for Senate
His campaign describes no public office he has held, and this desk found no official record of votes, bills or decisions to list. His one claim about his own past, military service, has no public record this desk could check. Greg Levy for Senate
Campaign money from other committees, by type
His principal committee's filings for the 2025-2026 cycle through June 30, 2026 itemize no receipts on line 11B (party committees), line 11C (other political committees) or line 12 (transfers from authorized committees), and its own summary totals for those lines are zero. Its money came from individuals, which this table does not count. Federal Election Commission, Federal Election Commission
Holds no public office. The Libertarian Party's nominee; his campaign says he grew up in Findlay and had a 38-year career in business valuation. Redpath for US Senate Committee
His campaign says he holds an active certified public accountant licence in Ohio and Illinois. Redpath for US Senate Committee
His campaign describes him as a nine-time Libertarian candidate and a member of the party's national committee for 24 years, its chair from 2006 to 2010. Redpath for US Senate Committee
A commission with powers like the military base-closing commission to draw up Social Security reforms for a single up-or-down vote in Congress. Redpath for US Senate Committee
Replacing the tax code with a 20 per cent flat tax on individual income and a 20 per cent tax on distributed profits. Redpath for US Senate Committee
Eliminating the Departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development, and ending corporate welfare and farm subsidies. Redpath for US Senate Committee
His campaign describes no public office he has held, and this desk found no official record of votes, bills or decisions to list. His claims about his past concern candidacies, party office and professional licences. The FEC lists six federal Libertarian candidacies under five candidate records: Virginia Senate in 2008, Virginia's 10th District in 2010 and 2014, Illinois's 6th District in 2020, filed as "Bill Redpath" and not matched to him beyond the name, Illinois Senate in 2022 and this race; his campaign says nine. State candidacies and his accountancy licences are in state records this desk did not read; the next tests are the Ohio Accountancy Board and Illinois IDFPR licence lookups. Redpath for US Senate Committee, Federal Election Commission
Receipts from committees on lines 11B, 11C and 12 of his principal committee's filings for the 2025-2026 cycle through June 30, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded type of the contributing committee. Line 11B, party committees: one row totalling $4,975.25. Nothing is itemized on line 11C or line 12. The rows sum to $4,975.25. Each line's itemized sum matches the committee's own summary total for that line. Donations individuals made through ActBlue or WinRed are individual contributions and are not in the table, and neither is any other individual contribution. The rows sum to 4,975.25 dollars.
Race outlook
How election analysts rate this race
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The Stated Record analysisToss-up
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Cook Political ReportToss Up
Cook Political Report assessed this Aug 20, 2026; checked Sep 3, 2026.
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Issue comparison
What each campaign says
These are attributed platform positions, not promises The Stated Record has verified or endorsed.
His campaign says data centers should pay the full cost of their utilities so household bills do not go up, and that he would cap how much utility companies can raise rates.
His office says his Ratepayer Protection Act would make large electricity users such as data centers, not families or small businesses, pay for the generation and transmission built to serve them.
His platform says Ohioans should not have to worry about electricity bills driven up by data centers they did not ask for, and that the race for AI threatens to strain the state's grid.
His campaign says insurers should be banned from denying care a patient's doctor says is needed and fined for denying claims, and that drug companies should not be allowed to charge Americans more than people in other countries.
His office says his Accountability for Better Care Act would extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits for two years with changes to reduce fraud and lower premiums, and promotes his over-the-counter drug bill as making medicines more affordable.
His campaign says Medicare should pay enrollees in cash rather than paying providers, with more for those with lower lifetime incomes and worse health, and that Medicaid should pass to the states as federal subsidies phase out over ten years.
His campaign says members of Congress and their spouses should be banned from trading stocks, and that members should not be able to become lobbyists after leaving office.
No statement on congressional stock trading or lobbying was found in the 253 press releases and 13 op-eds his Senate office published from February 2025 to September 2026, or on his campaign site. On the record, he is an original cosponsor of S. 4134, the Stop Insider Trading Act, introduced in March 2026; that is a cosponsorship, not a statement.
No position on congressional stock trading or lobbying was found on his campaign's About, What I Stand For or Media pages; his electoral-reform section is about how votes are counted.
His campaign credits him with the law restoring full Social Security payments to public workers and with securing the retirements of more than 100,000 Ohioans whose pensions were at risk.
His campaign warns that Social Security payments will be cut by about 24 per cent by late 2032 without action, and proposes a commission to draw up reforms for a single up-or-down vote in Congress.
His campaign says Washington is giving massive tax breaks to corporations and billionaires at the expense of working Ohioans, and gives that as a reason he is running. He left the Senate before the 2025 tax law was voted on.
His office says the 2025 tax law helps people keep more of what they earn, lists its tips, overtime, child tax credit and adoption credit provisions, and says he is proud to have supported it.
His campaign would scrap the Internal Revenue Code for a 20 per cent flat tax on individual income with a family allowance, a 20 per cent tax on distributed profits, and no taxes at death.
He joined four senators in a letter urging the U.S. Trade Representative to use the review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to reinforce the stability it gives farmers, and to enforce its terms and address unfair practices.
No position on voting rules or election administration was found on his campaign's home page, its Our Fight issues page, or its posts on stock trading, data centers and fundraising. On the record, he cosponsored the Freedom to Vote Act, S. 2747, and was an original cosponsor of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, S. 4, both in the 117th Congress; that is a cosponsorship, not a statement.
His platform calls for outlawing gerrymandering and voter purges, and for moving to abolish the Senate and the Supreme Court and transfer their powers to more accountable bodies.
His campaign supports ranked-choice voting for single-winner elections, multi-member House districts under the Fair Representation Act, and the National Popular Vote compact.
The number of cards varies with what each candidate's official record supports, and every card carries the same required parts: what they say, what the official record shows, one label from the fixed list, and its limit. Each card is labeled narrowly, by rule. A single vote, sponsorship, or filing can match one claim without proving a candidate's whole record, and a card never says why someone did something.
His campaign says that because of him, more than two million former teachers, bus drivers, police officers, firefighters and other workers now receive their full Social Security payments.
“because of Sherrod Brown, over 2 million former teachers, bus drivers, police officers, firefighters, and other workers are now receiving their full Social Security payments”
He introduced the Social Security Fairness Act in five Congresses running: S. 1651 in 2015, S. 915 in 2017, S. 521 in 2019, S. 1302 in 2021 and S. 597 in 2023. The version enacted was the House bill of the same name, H.R. 82, sponsored by Representative Garret Graves; its operative sections, repealing the two provisions and setting the date the repeal applies from, are word for word those of his S. 597. In the Senate sitting of December 20, 2024, which ran into December 21, he voted Yea on the motion to waive the budget point of order raised against it, which carried 66 to 30 (Roll Call 337), and Yea on passage, which carried 76 to 20 (Roll Call 338). It became Public Law 118-273 on January 5, 2025, repealing the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision. The Social Security Administration said on July 10, 2025 that when the law passed, about 2.8 million current beneficiaries had benefits reduced by the two provisions.
Limit: The record shows him as the Senate sponsor of this measure across five Congresses and voting for it at both Senate votes that carried it. The law was enacted under the House bill's number with his bill's operative text; this desk treats a bill enacted under its companion's number as enacted, for every candidate. "Because of Sherrod Brown" is a claim about cause, which no roll call settles on its own: the House bill had its own sponsor, and 76 senators voted for it. SSA's count of about 2.8 million backs "over 2 million", though it counts people whose benefits were cut, not people now paid in full. Its figure of over 3.1 million counts payments, not people.
He voted Yea on Senate passage of H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act, in the sitting of August 6, 2022, which ran into August 7; the Senate divided 50 to 50 and the Vice President's vote carried it (Roll Call 325). It became Public Law 117-169. Section 11406 sets cost-sharing for insulin under Medicare Part D, and section 11001 begins Medicare negotiation of prices for certain high-priced drugs. In the same sitting he voted Yea to keep a wider $35 insulin cap, which Senator Murray said would help "not just seniors but workers and students"; it got 57 votes, short of the 60 needed, and the language was struck (Roll Call 314). In 2022 he also cosponsored Senator Raphael Warnock's Affordable Insulin Now Act, S. 3700, which would have limited what patients pay for insulin in private health plans as well as Medicare; it did not pass.
Limit: The cap that became law applies to Medicare, which is what "for Ohio seniors" says; the wider cap he also voted for failed. The bill passed on an evenly divided vote, so each of the fifty votes for it was needed. What a senator did beyond voting, which "fought" implies, is not something a roll call records.
His campaign says that when veterans exposed to toxic burn pits were being turned away by the VA, he worked with Republicans to get them the care they deserved.
“Sherrod worked with Republicans to get them the care they deserved.”
In April 2021 he introduced S. 1188, the SFC Heath Robinson Burn Pit Transparency Act, with Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, a Republican, as its original cosponsor; he had first filed it with Portman in June 2020, as S. 3885. It did not pass on its own. Its registry provisions, that a VA medical professional must tell a veteran about the burn pit registry when the veteran seeks treatment related to exposure, and that registry numbers be published by state and congressional district, appear almost word for word in section 808(b) of Public Law 117-168, the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022. In February 2022 he was one of the original cosponsors, nine of them Republicans, of Senator Jon Tester's Health Care for Burn Pit Veterans Act, S. 3541, which passed the Senate by voice vote on February 16, 2022. Its sections extending VA health-care eligibility for combat veterans from five to ten years after discharge, and adding a toxic-exposure screening to VA health care, are in the same law almost word for word, as sections 111 and 603. In 2019 he was an original cosponsor, with Republicans including Dan Sullivan and Jerry Moran, of the Burn Pits Accountability Act, S. 191, whose requirement that military health assessments ask about burn pit exposure became section 704 of the defense authorization act for fiscal year 2020. He voted Yea on Senate passage of H.R. 3967 on June 16, 2022 (Roll Call 230, 84 to 14) and Yea on the final Senate vote on S. 3373 on August 2, 2022 (Roll Call 280, 86 to 11). It was signed on August 10, 2022.
Limit: The record shows him on three bipartisan burn pit bills whose text became law, one his own, and voting for the law that extended care. The care provisions came from a bill led by another senator that he cosponsored with Republicans; a cosponsorship shows he signed on, not what else he did. "Get them the care they deserved" describes the law as a whole, which passed the Senate 86 to 11.
His campaign says that when Wall Street banks gambled away workers' pensions, he led the charge to make sure more than 100,000 Ohioans got the retirement they were owed.
“Sherrod led the charge to make sure over 100,000 Ohioans got the retirement they were owed.”
He introduced the Butch Lewis Act three times: S. 2147 in 2017, S. 2254 in 2019 and S. 547, the Butch Lewis Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act, on March 2, 2021. None passed under its own number. In 2018 he co-chaired, with Senator Orrin Hatch, Congress's joint select committee on the solvency of multiemployer pension plans. He voted Yea on Senate passage of H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act, in the sitting of March 5, 2021, which ran into March 6 (Roll Call 110, 50 to 49); it became Public Law 117-2 on March 11, 2021. Three sections of S. 547 are in that law's pension provisions almost word for word and under the same headings: a temporary delay of critical and declining status (section 9701), longer funding improvement and rehabilitation periods (section 9702) and adjusted funding standard account rules (section 9703). His bill's central relief paid for partitions of troubled plans from a new eighth fund under section 4005 of ERISA; section 9704 sets up that eighth fund in the same words but pays special financial assistance to plans directly, rather than through partitions. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's list of approved plans, updated September 18, 2026, has 17 plans located in Ohio, with 26,348 participants between them.
Limit: Three Congresses of sponsorship, a vote for the law that funded troubled pension plans, and his own bill's text in that law go the way the claim does; the law passed 50 to 49. What holds the label to the claim's direction is the number, over 100,000 Ohioans. PBGC's list counts where plans are based, not where members live, so it leaves out Ohioans in plans based elsewhere, such as Central States in Chicago. It neither proves nor disproves the number.
On the nineteen votes read here, on trade agreements, fast-track negotiating authority and permanent normal trade relations, he voted against seventeen and for two. Trade agreements, in the House: No on the implementing bills for NAFTA on November 17, 1993 (Roll Call 575, passed 234 to 200), the Uruguay Round in 1994, Chile and Singapore in 2003, Australia and Morocco in 2004, the Central America agreement on July 28, 2005 (Roll Call 443, passed 217 to 215), Bahrain in 2005 and Oman in 2006. In the Senate: Nay on Peru in 2007 and on Korea, Panama and Colombia in 2011, and Yea on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act, which replaced NAFTA, on January 16, 2020 (Roll Call 14, 89 to 10). Fast-track authority: No on the Trade Act of 2002, which carried it, and Nay on Trade Promotion Authority on June 24, 2015 (Senate Roll Call 219, agreed to 60 to 38). Permanent normal trade relations: No for China on May 24, 2000 (House Roll Call 228, passed 237 to 197) and for Vietnam in 2006 (House Roll Call 519, a motion to pass it that failed), and Yea for Russia and Moldova in 2012 (Senate Roll Call 223, 92 to 4).
Limit: "Unfair" is the campaign's word, and no roll call can say which agreements were unfair. His two votes for were the agreement that replaced the NAFTA he had voted against, and normal trade relations for Russia and Moldova. These nineteen are the passage votes this desk read in those three groups, not every trade vote of a thirty-two-year congressional career; the 2001 agreement with Jordan passed both chambers by voice vote, so it has no recorded vote. Vietnam's trade status became law later that year inside a tax bill, H.R. 6111. He voted for that bill before the trade text was added, then against the rule that added it and against the trade bill itself (House Roll Calls 533, 536 and 539).
His campaign says no member of Congress, and no member's spouse, should be able to trade stocks, and that members should not be able to become lobbyists after leaving office.
“No one – NO ONE – who serves in Congress, or their spouse, should be able to trade stocks.”
In the Senate he was an original cosponsor of the ETHICS Act, S. 1171, in 2023, which would have barred members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading or owning stocks; it was placed on the Senate calendar and never voted on. He cosponsored Senator Jeff Merkley's Ban Conflicted Trading Act in three Congresses: S. 3718 in 2018, S. 1393 in 2019 and S. 564 in 2021. None passed. Earlier he cosponsored the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, S. 1903, in 2011, and on February 2, 2012 voted Yea when the Senate passed the STOCK Act, S. 2038, 96 to 3 (Roll Call 14); it became Public Law 112-105 on April 4, 2012. That law says members of Congress are not exempt from the insider-trading laws and requires them to report their trades; it does not ban trading.
Limit: Cosponsoring is not enacting, and none of the bills that would ban trading passed. The one law he voted for, the STOCK Act, is about insider trading and disclosure, which goes the way of his position without being the ban he now calls for. These answer the stock-trading half of the position; this desk did not search his record on the lobbying ban.
His campaign says he raised $14.1 million for his campaign committee in the second quarter of 2026, within a total of over $17.1 million that also counts $3 million raised for affiliated fundraising committees.
“including $14.1 million to the Friends of Sherrod Brown campaign committee and $3 million to affiliated fundraising committees”
His committee's two reports for April 1 to June 30, 2026 show receipts of $1,508,560.39 for April 1 to 15 and $12,586,265.62 for April 16 to June 30, a total of $14,094,826.01. The Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee whose members are his campaign committee, the Ohio Democratic Party, his leadership PAC and the DSCC, reported $3,022,347.64 in receipts for the quarter. Together that is $17,117,173.65.
Limit: The fund passed $1,936,000 to his campaign committee in the quarter, so that money is in both figures; counted once, his committees raised about $15.18 million. The fund's name does not include his; its registration lists his committee as a member. No filing shows how the fund splits money among its members.
His office says his first bill to become law repealed regulations, and describes it as his resolution reversing a Biden-era energy requirement on household appliances.
“My first bill to become law repeals regulations to make everyday life easier and more affordable for Americans.”
The law is the House resolution, H.J. Res. 42, which Representative Andrew Clyde filed on February 12, 2025 to overturn the Department of Energy's rule on certification, labelling and enforcement for appliance standards. The House passed it on March 5 (Roll Call 59, 222 to 203). Husted filed the Senate version, S.J. Res. 50, on April 28, the day before the Senate voted 52 to 46 to take up the House resolution, with his Yea (Roll Call 222). On April 30 he spoke for it on the Senate floor: "I am proud to stand here and lead this commonsense legislation." Senator Thune said that day the effort was "led here in the Senate by Senator Husted." The Senate passed it that day with his Yea, 52 to 46 (Roll Call 223), and it became Public Law 119-8 on May 9, 2025. His own resolution went no further.
Limit: The law is Representative Clyde's resolution, filed first; Husted filed his 54 days after the House passed it. The two read the same because the law sets the wording of every resolution of this kind, so the match does not show who wrote it. The record does show him leading it in the Senate, and his office's release gives both chambers' vote dates.
He introduced S. 2529 on July 30, 2025, with Senator Hassan; it sets a process for meetings with the Food and Drug Administration before an application to switch a drug from prescription to over-the-counter status. The bill was referred to committee, and its text was enacted, with some changes in wording, as section 6507 of Public Law 119-37, the continuing appropriations act signed on November 12, 2025; the meeting-request provision is word for word the same in both.
Limit: It became law as one section of a funding act, not as a bill of its own, and some wording changed on the way. The introduced bill carries no short title; SMART OTC Act is his office's name for it. Whether the change makes medicines more affordable is a prediction the record does not test.
His office's release says the Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act was sponsored by him and counts it as the third bill he spearheaded to be signed into law; its next sentence says Senator Gary Peters and he introduced it together on September 18, 2025.
“The Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act, sponsored by Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio), was passed by the United States House of Representatives”
“Sens. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) today introduced the Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act”
What the record shows ·
Congress.gov records Senator Gary Peters as the sponsor of S. 2878, introduced September 18, 2025, and Husted as its only cosponsor, an original one. It passed the Senate on November 19 and the House on December 15, 2025, and became Public Law 119-67 on December 26, 2025, extending the Great Lakes fishery research authorization from 2025 to 2030.
He voted Yea on Senate passage of S. 331, the HALT Fentanyl Act, on March 14, 2025; it passed 84 to 16 (Roll Call 127). The bill, sponsored by Senator Bill Cassidy, became Public Law 119-26. It places fentanyl-related substances in schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act as a class.
On March 3, 2025 he voted Yea on cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 9, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025, which would have Title IX athletics recognise sex based solely on reproductive biology and genetics at birth. Cloture was not invoked, 51 to 45, short of the 60 needed (Roll Call 100), and the bill has had no vote on passage.
Limit: The one recorded vote is procedural: whether to begin debate, not whether to pass the bill. It is the vote his biography describes, and he cast it the way the biography says.
His office lists what the 2025 tax law provides, including no tax on tips or overtime, a $2,200 child tax credit and a partially refundable adoption credit of up to $5,000, and he says he is proud to have supported it.
“this law helps you keep more of what you earn, which is why I’m proud to have supported it”
He voted Yea on Senate passage of H.R. 1 in the sitting of June 30, 2025, which ran into July 1; the Senate divided 50 to 50 and the Vice President's vote carried it (Roll Call 372). It became Public Law 119-21 on July 4, 2025; the law has no short title. Section 70104 raises the child tax credit to $2,200. Section 70402 makes up to $5,000 of the adoption credit refundable. Sections 70201 and 70202 create deductions for qualified tips, capped at $25,000, and for qualified overtime, capped at $12,500 or $25,000 on a joint return; both shrink above $150,000 of modified adjusted gross income ($300,000 on a joint return) and end after 2028.
Limit: He voted for the law and it contains each provision his office lists. "No tax on tips" and "no tax on overtime" are his office's shorthand for capped deductions that end after 2028, which is not the same as removing the tax. The same release says he "cast the deciding vote"; the record shows fifty senators voting Yea on an evenly divided vote, any one of whom was needed, and does not single out his.
Section 71401 of Public Law 119-21 created the Rural Health Transformation Program and appropriated $10,000,000,000 a year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 for allotments to states. He voted Yea on the law's Senate passage (Roll Call 372). On July 2, 2025, the chief executives of four rural Ohio health systems wrote to him and Senator Bernie Moreno thanking them for "tireless work behind the scenes" to direct funding to Ohio's rural hospitals; the letter does not name the fund. After the law was enacted, his office says, he led a letter from Ohio's congressional delegation on December 19, 2025 supporting the state's application to the fund.
Limit: He voted for the law that created the fund, which is one section of it. The hospital chiefs' letter thanks him for work on rural hospital funding but does not name the fund. The delegation letter came after the fund existed. What he did in the talks, which "fought" describes, is not something a roll call records.
His office says he brought his bill to extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits for two years, with reforms, to the Senate floor for passage by unanimous consent, and that it was blocked.
“This would extend enhanced premium credits for two years, but with reforms that will reduce fraud, lower premiums and protect the long-standing conscience rights for millions of Americans.”
He introduced S. 3391, the Accountability for Better Care Act of 2025, on December 9, 2025; its text moves the end of the enhanced premium tax credits from the start of 2026 to the start of 2028. On December 10 he asked unanimous consent that it be passed, and an objection was heard (Congressional Record, page S8598). The next day he voted Yea on cloture on proceeding to S. 3386, a bill to give certain enrollees a health savings account contribution, and Nay on cloture on proceeding to S. 3385, a bill to extend the enhanced credit; both failed, 51 to 48 (Roll Calls 643 and 644).
Limit: The record bears out what his office describes: his bill, his request and the objection. It also shows that the next day he voted against beginning debate on a different bill to extend the same credits, which the release does not mention. A vote against proceeding to one bill is not a vote against extending the credits in every form.
Data centers and electricity bills: the Ratepayer Protection Act
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What they say
His office says he introduced the Ratepayer Protection Act on July 16, 2026, that the act passed the House on September 16, 2026, by 417 to 3, and that on September 17 he brought it to the Senate floor seeking passage by unanimous consent, which was blocked.
“The Ratepayer Protection Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 16, 2026, by an overwhelming, bipartisan vote of 417-3.”
“Reps. Gabe Evans (R-Colo.) and Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) introduced the companion bill to the Ratepayer Protection Act in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
What the record shows ·
He introduced S. 5028, the Ratepayer Protection Act, on July 16, 2026; it was referred to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. It would add a standard to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act under which rates for data-center customers with a peak demand of 100 megawatts or more recover the full, incremental cost of the generation, transmission and distribution upgrades needed to serve them, a standard state regulators must consider and decide whether to adopt. The bill the House passed on September 16 was the House companion, H.R. 9340, sponsored by Representative Gabe Evans, on a motion to suspend the rules and pass it as amended, 417 to 3 (Roll Call 312). Its 100-megawatt threshold and its full-cost standard appear word for word in the House bill as passed, though the two texts are not identical. On September 17, 2026 he asked unanimous consent that the Senate take up H.R. 9340 and pass it; an objection was heard (Congressional Record, pages S4775 to S4776). Neither bill has passed the Senate.
Limit: The House passed its own bill of the same name, not his. His office's July release says Representatives Evans and Castor introduced the House companion, so his office has not hidden the difference, but "the Ratepayer Protection Act passed the House" describes a different bill number with overlapping, not identical, text. When he sought Senate passage, the bill he asked the Senate to pass was the House one, so his office's use of the name follows how he treats the House bill himself.
His office says the Senate voted on his bill to require voters to show photo ID at the polls, and that it fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance, 52 to 46.
“The Senate today voted on Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-Ohio) bill to require voters to show photo ID at the polls.”
He introduced S. 5271 on August 5, 2026, to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require voters to provide photo identification. In the Senate sitting of August 7, 2026, which ran into August 8, he voted Yea on cloture on the motion to proceed to it; cloture was not invoked, 52 to 46 (Roll Call 231), so the bill was not debated.
His Senate biography says that as Speaker of the Ohio House he expanded educational freedom for Ohio children through the creation of the EdChoice Scholarship.
“As Speaker, Husted expanded educational freedom for Ohio children through the creation of the EdChoice Scholarship.”
The Ohio House lists him as Speaker from 2005 to 2009. Amended Substitute House Bill 66 of the 126th General Assembly, the state budget effective June 30, 2005, lists him among its House cosponsors, and its enacted text adds section 3310.02 of the Revised Code: "The educational choice scholarship pilot program is hereby established." The section is still in force. As Speaker he voted Yea when the House agreed to the conference report on the bill on June 21, 2005, 53 to 46 (House Journal, page 1382).
Limit: The record shows the program created by a budget bill he cosponsored and voted for in his first year as Speaker. A state budget carries hundreds of provisions, so his cosponsorship and vote show support for the whole bill; what he did to put EdChoice into it is not recorded. The legislature's bill page records no votes online; the vote is in the House Journal. The same biography's claims that this budget was the most conservative in four decades and carried the largest income tax cut in Ohio's history are comparisons this desk did not test.
His campaign says he raised $7.7 million across all affiliated committees in the second quarter of 2026, bringing his cash on hand to more than $11 million.
“Jon Husted raised a campaign-record $7.7 million across all affiliated committees during the second quarter, more than doubling his first-quarter total and bringing his cash on hand to more than $11 million.”
His principal campaign committee, Husted for Senate, reported receipts of $260,995.17 for April 1 to 15 and $3,831,806.20 for April 16 to June 30, a total of $4,092,801.37, and cash on hand of $9,418,818.45 on June 30. Two joint fundraising committees raised money for him in the quarter. Husted Victory reported $3,219,278.53 in receipts. Team Husted reported $2,153,164.49 and passed $1,195,236.60 of it to his campaign, $513,005.51 to Ohio Flyer PAC and $151,205.93 to the NRSC. His leadership PAC, Jobs Opportunity Now PAC, reported $135,819.59. Counting each dollar once across those four committees, and leaving out what Team Husted passed to other groups, gives $7,736,850.87. Cash on hand across the six committees tied to him was $10,754,460.71 on June 30.
No filing shows how a joint fundraising committee splits its money among its members, so no single report gives the $7.7 million. Counted once across his four committees, the filings come to $7.74 million, in line with the claim. Cash on hand on June 30 was $10.75 million across all six, short of the "more than $11 million" claimed. The third-quarter reports, due October 15, show where the joint committees' money went next.
Limit: The six committees are his campaign committee, his nominee fund, his leadership PAC, Husted Victory, Team Husted and the Barrasso Husted Moody Fund. Cleveland Husted Victory registered on July 17, 2026, after the quarter. Other reasonable ways of counting give $7.31 million to $8.40 million. Whether the quarter more than doubled his first was not tested.
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Cuyahoga County's candidate list records Sherrod Brown, Jon Husted and William B. Redpath as filing for the United States Senate seat on February 4, 2026, for the unexpired term ending January 3, 2029.
The same list records Greg Levy as filing on May 5, 2026, with a nonpartisan designation. All four were valid when the list was read on September 23, 2026; three write-in candidates filed on August 24.
Friends of Sherrod Brown. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. The biography section holds all of his claims about his own record. Its footer reads "Paid for by Friends of Sherrod Brown" and links his X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, TikTok, YouTube and Bluesky accounts. The site's WordPress API refuses anonymous readers (HTTP 401), so pages were read as a reader reaches them.
Friends of Sherrod Brown. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. The site's only issues page: health insurance, drug prices, data centers, utility rates, and congressional stock trading and lobbying. Its lines about his opponent are out of scope here.
Friends of Sherrod Brown. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. Includes the ad's transcript.
Friends of Sherrod Brown. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. Includes the ad's transcript.
Husted for Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. Footer reads "Paid for by Husted for Senate"; the site links the campaign's X account @TeamHusted and three Facebook pages by number. The FEC committee record gives www.jonhusted.com, which forwards here. The site has no issues page and its /coalitions/ page returns 404.
Husted for Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. Biography with claims about his time as Speaker, secretary of state and lieutenant governor.
Husted for Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. Index page; the entry dated July 14, 2026 carries the second-quarter fundraising claim. Its endorsement entries and a firearms-rating comparison with his opponent are out of scope.
Office of Senator Jon Husted. Released by his Senate office. Claims are the office's own and are attributed, not independently verified. His official biography: Speaker 2005 to 2009, EdChoice, secretary of state, lieutenant governor, and his Senate votes described in general terms. The office site has no issues page (/issues/ returns 404).
Office of Senator Jon Husted. Released by his Senate office. Claims are the office's own and are attributed, not independently verified. All 253 releases from February 18, 2025 to September 17, 2026 and all 13 op-eds were read in full through the site's public WordPress API on September 23, 2026; the counts are the API's own totals for items published before September 18, 2026. Searched for stock trading (no hit in 266 texts), trade and tariffs, Social Security, pensions and data centers.
Office of Senator Jon Husted. Released by his Senate office. Claims are the office's own and are attributed, not independently verified. Says he "advanced and passed three of my bills into law" and that the Great Lakes act was one "which Husted co-led".
Office of Senator Jon Husted. Released by his Senate office. Claims are the office's own and are attributed, not independently verified. Used for his own words that he "accepted the appointment to the U.S. Senate".
Office of Senator Jon Husted. Released by his Senate office. Claims are the office's own and are attributed, not independently verified. Says he led a letter from Ohio's congressional delegation on December 19, 2025 supporting Ohio's application to the fund.
Office of Senator Jon Husted. Released by his Senate office. Claims are the office's own and are attributed, not independently verified. Relays and quotes a letter from rural Ohio health-system chief executives to him and Senator Bernie Moreno.
Office of Senator Bernie Moreno. An image of the letter dated July 2, 2025, posted by Senator Moreno's office and linked from Husted's release of the same day; signed by the chief executives of Memorial Health System, Genesis Health System, Adena Health System and Southern Ohio Medical Center. It thanks the two senators for work "to secure these outcomes" for rural hospitals and does not name the Rural Health Transformation Program. Retrieved September 23, 2026, sha256 3663a61de7adc86e948235ed41fb6cdc63af642bf290416cc99eb676e78bf317. An image cannot be text-checked by script; its wording is checked through Husted's release, which quotes it.
Office of Senator Jon Husted. Released by his Senate office. Claims are the office's own and are attributed, not independently verified. "Working Families Tax Cuts Act" is the office's name for Public Law 119-21, which has no short title.
Office of Senator Jon Husted. Released by his Senate office. Claims are the office's own and are attributed, not independently verified. A joint letter; the quoted words are the five senators' together.
Greg Levy for Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. Footer reads "PAID FOR BY GREG LEVY FOR SENATE". He filed no website with the FEC; the domain is the one his campaign uses. The site links Instagram and TikTok accounts @greglevy4senate and no X account.
Greg Levy for Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. A 2,836-word platform, the whole of his issue material.
Greg Levy for Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. Describes the Party for Socialism and Liberation, whose program the campaign presents.
Redpath for US Senate Committee. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. Footer reads "Paid for by the Redpath for US Senate Committee"; the FEC committee record gives BILLREDPATH.COM. Its social links point at the bare instagram.com, facebook.com and x.com domains, so no handle is established.
Redpath for US Senate Committee. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. The site's issues page, served at /faq/: Iran, tariffs, immigration, the debt and entitlements, federal spending, taxes and electoral reform.
Redpath for US Senate Committee. Campaign-controlled source. Positions and claims are attributed to the campaign, not independently verified facts. Links to interviews and news coverage; read for statements, none on the subjects where he is recorded as silent.
Congress.gov. Resolved from Congress.gov's Ohio member listings for the 110th and 118th Congresses and name-checked. Records House service from 1993 to 2007 and Senate service from 2007 to 2025.
Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. Lists the United States Senator race for the unexpired term ending January 3, 2029: Sherrod Brown (Democratic), Jon Husted (Republican) and William B. Redpath (Libertarian), each filed February 4, 2026, and Greg Levy (Nonpartisan), filed May 5, 2026, all valid; three valid write-ins filed August 24, 2026. The county list is not ballot order. Retrieved September 23, 2026, sha256 5eaa1507f117fb441da88983f85e9495ae11e86c8c4d2670364773c70eb31df0. Ohio's Secretary of State site refuses automated readers, so a county board's list is used for the field.
The Ohio Legislature. The 2005 state budget: primary sponsor Chuck Calvert, with Jon Husted among the listed House cosponsors, effective June 30, 2005, and among the sections it enacts, 3310.02. The enrolled text (the legislature's PDF, sha256 ca075d877dd726cf152c1d5980474205c4ed52e27429c4a8eee12192df4658d6) reads at section 3310.02: "The educational choice scholarship pilot program is hereby established." The bill's votes page records no votes online.
Ohio Legislative Service Commission. The section as currently in force, still opening "The educational choice scholarship pilot program is hereby established."
Ohio House of Representatives. Listed on the legislature's journal index for the 126th General Assembly (legislature.ohio.gov/session/journals/126). Page 1382, reports of conference committees: the House agreed to the conference report on Am. Sub. H.B. 66, yeas 53, nays 46, with "Husted-53." closing the list of affirmative votes, where the journal names the Speaker. Retrieved September 23, 2026 as a PDF, sha256 cd99f77aee1eb69eebf66711438dba1eaf58540879419203bf70c88e2ba4a8b8.
Federal Election Commission. The FEC's candidate search for Redpath returns five candidate records, all Libertarian: S8VA00271 (Virginia Senate, 2008), H0VA10145 (Virginia's 10th District, 2010 and 2014), H0IL06086 (Illinois's 6th District, 2020, filed as "Redpath, Bill"), S2IL00226 (Illinois Senate, 2022) and S6OH00429 (Ohio Senate, 2026). Each candidate page at fec.gov/data/candidate/<id>/ was read on September 23, 2026. This desk has not matched the 2020 Illinois filing to him beyond the name and party.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Passed 76 to 20. The Record prints this sitting under December 20, 2024; the next calendar day holds no Senate proceedings, because the sitting ran past midnight. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Agreed to 66 to 30, so the point of order against the bill fell. The Record prints this sitting under December 20, 2024; it ran into December 21, the date Congress.gov gives. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Yeas 50, nays 50, with the Vice President presiding and casting the deciding vote; the bill passed. The Record prints this sitting under August 6, 2022; it ran into August 7. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Yeas 57, nays 43; the motion needed 60 and failed, so the language was struck. Just before it, Senator Graham raised a point of order against pages 744 to 755 of the substitute, and Senator Murray spoke for a $35 monthly cap for "not just seniors but workers and students". Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Passed 84 to 14. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Agreed to 86 to 11. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Passed 50 to 49. The Record prints this sitting under March 5, 2021; it ran into March 6. The shared collector refused this day as a whole, because another vote in the same section breaks its arithmetic, and this vote was re-read on its own and passed all three checks. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Passed 77 to 18. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Passed 83 to 15. The Record prints the three agreement votes of the day, on H.R. 3080, H.R. 3079 and H.R. 3078, in that order. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Passed 77 to 22. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Passed 66 to 33. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Passed 92 to 4. The act extended permanent normal trade relations to Russia and Moldova. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Passed 96 to 3. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Agreed to 60 to 38. The vehicle, H.R. 2146, carried the fast-track trade negotiating authority. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Passed 89 to 10. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Passed 52 to 46. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Agreed to 52 to 46 on April 29, 2025. Senator Thune moved to proceed to the House resolution (page S2644). Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Failed 49 to 49 on passage. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Passed 84 to 16. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Yeas 51, nays 45; cloture needed 60 and was not invoked. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Yeas 50, nays 50, with the Vice President presiding and casting the deciding vote; the bill passed. The Record prints this sitting under June 30, 2025; it ran into July 1. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Yeas 51, nays 48; cloture needed 60 and was not invoked. S. 3386 would provide a health savings account contribution to certain enrollees. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Yeas 51, nays 48; cloture needed 60 and was not invoked. S. 3385 would extend the enhanced premium tax credit. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Yeas 52, nays 46; cloture needed 60 and was not invoked. The Record prints this sitting under August 7, 2026; it ran into August 8, the date Congress.gov and his office's release give. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Page S8598 of December 10, 2025: his request that the Finance Committee be discharged and S. 3391 passed, the objection of the Senator from Wisconsin, and the chair's "Objection is heard."
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Pages S4775 to S4776 of September 17, 2026: his request that the Senate proceed to H.R. 9340, which was at the desk, and pass it, and the chair's "The objection is heard."
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Passed November 17, 1993. The Clerk's XML for 1993 carries no member IDs; Brown is "Brown (OH)", the only Ohio Brown.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Passed November 29, 1994. The Clerk's XML for 1994 carries no member IDs; Brown is "Brown (OH)", the only Ohio Brown.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Passed May 24, 2000. The Clerk's XML for 2000 carries no member IDs; Brown is "Brown (OH)", the only Ohio Brown.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Agreed to July 27, 2002. The Clerk's XML for 2002 carries no member IDs; Brown is "Brown (OH)", the only Ohio Brown. The conference report became Public Law 107-210, whose Division B is the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Failed November 13, 2006: 228 to 161, short of the two-thirds a suspension needs. Brown carries member ID B000944.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Passed December 8, 2006 at 7:45 pm, 212 to 184. Under section 2 of H. Res. 1100 its text was added to H.R. 6111. Brown carries member ID B000944.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Agreed to December 8, 2006 at 5:29 pm. Section 2 of the rule added the text of H.R. 6406, as passed, to the House amendment to H.R. 6111. Brown carries member ID B000944.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Agreed to December 8, 2006 at 3:38 pm, 367 to 45, before the rule that added the trade text was adopted. Brown carries member ID B000944.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Sherrod Brown. Referred to the Finance Committee; the House bill was the one enacted. Its sections 2 to 4, repealing the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision and setting the effective date, are word for word sections 2 to 4 of Public Law 118-273; only the short title differs.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Sherrod Brown, introduced April 15, 2021 "for himself and Mr. Portman"; Rob Portman (R-OH) is the original cosponsor. Hearings held; did not pass. Its section 2(c) registry-notice and display language is compared here with section 808(b) of Public Law 117-168.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Jon Tester, introduced February 1, 2022. Seventeen original cosponsors, Sherrod Brown among them, with nine Republicans: Jerry Moran, Thom Tillis, Dan Sullivan, John Boozman, Tommy Tuberville, Bill Cassidy, Kevin Cramer, Mike Rounds and Marsha Blackburn. Passed the Senate without amendment by voice vote on February 16, 2022; held at the desk in the House. Its section 2 (eligibility for VA health care) and section 3 (toxic exposure screening) appear almost word for word as sections 111 and 603 of Public Law 117-168.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Amy Klobuchar, introduced January 17, 2019. Sherrod Brown an original cosponsor, with Republicans Dan Sullivan, John Boozman, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz and Jerry Moran. Referred to the Armed Services Committee; its operative section appears almost word for word as section 704 of Public Law 116-92.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Raphael Warnock, introduced February 17, 2022. Brown a cosponsor from March 2, 2022, not an original one. Would have set cost-sharing limits for insulin under Medicare Part D and private health plans. Did not pass.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Sherrod Brown, introduced March 2, 2021. Did not pass under its own number. Its sections 4, 5 and 6 appear almost word for word, under the same headings, as sections 9701, 9702 and 9703 of Public Law 117-2. Its section 2 funds partitions of troubled plans from a new eighth fund under section 4005 of ERISA; section 9704 of the law sets up the eighth fund in the same words but pays special financial assistance to plans directly.
Congress.gov. Passed the House by voice vote on July 31, 2001 and the Senate by voice vote on September 24, 2001; became Public Law 107-43. No recorded vote in either chamber.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Jeff Merkley; Brown an original cosponsor. Its title: to prevent members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks. Placed on the Senate calendar; never voted on.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Jon Husted, introduced April 28, 2025, 54 days after the House passed H.J. Res. 42; referred to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Disapproves the Department of Energy rule at 89 Fed. Reg. 81994 in the words 5 U.S.C. 802(a) sets for every such resolution, so its text matches H.J. Res. 42.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Representative Andrew Clyde, introduced February 12, 2025. Passed the House March 5, 2025, 222 to 203 (Roll Call 59), and was received in the Senate March 6. The Senate took it up on April 29 and passed it on April 30. Became Public Law 119-8.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Jon Husted, introduced July 30, 2025 with Senator Hassan; referred to the HELP Committee. The introduced text carries no short title; his office calls it the SMART OTC Act.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Gary Peters, introduced September 18, 2025. Cosponsors: Jon Husted alone, an original cosponsor from the day of introduction. Became Public Law 119-67.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Jon Husted, introduced December 9, 2025; referred to the Finance Committee. Its text moves the end of the enhanced premium tax credits from the start of 2026 to the start of 2028.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Jon Husted, introduced July 16, 2026; referred to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Adds a standard to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act for utility customers of 100 megawatts or more of data-processing load, which state regulators must consider and determine whether to adopt. Its 100-megawatt threshold and full-cost standard appear word for word in H.R. 9340 as passed by the House, whose text is not identical to his.
Congress.gov. Sponsor: Jon Husted, introduced August 5, 2026. A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require voters to provide photo identification.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Approved January 5, 2025. Section 2 repeals the Government Pension Offset and section 3 the Windfall Elimination Provision.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Section 11406 sets cost-sharing for covered insulin products under Medicare Part D; section 11001 provides for lower prices for certain high-priced single-source drugs through Medicare negotiation.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Approved August 10, 2022. Section 808, Burn Pit Transparency: an annual report on disability claims, and in subsection (b) the registry notice and display-by-district language that also appears in S. 1188. Section 111 extends VA health-care eligibility for combat veterans from five to ten years after discharge and section 603 adds a toxic-exposure screening to VA health care, both in the words of sections 2 and 3 of S. 3541.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Approved March 11, 2021. Sections 9701 to 9703 give multiemployer plans temporary relief from critical and declining status, longer funding improvement and rehabilitation periods and adjusted funding standard account rules, in the words of sections 4 to 6 of S. 547. Section 9704 creates special financial assistance for financially troubled multiemployer pension plans.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Approved December 20, 2019. Section 704 requires military periodic health assessments and separation examinations to evaluate exposure to open burn pits and toxic airborne chemicals, in the words of S. 191.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Approved December 20, 2006. Title IV of Division D extends normal trade relations to the products of Vietnam; Division D is the text of H.R. 6406.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Approved May 9, 2025. Disapproves the Department of Energy rule at 89 Fed. Reg. 81994 on appliance certification, labelling and enforcement.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Enacted from H.R. 5371 on November 12, 2025. Section 6507 carries the text of S. 2529 on applications to switch drugs from prescription to over-the-counter status, with some changes in wording; its meeting-request provision is word for word the bill's.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Approved December 26, 2025. Extends the Great Lakes fishery research authorization from 2025 to 2030. Its legislative history: passed the Senate November 19 and the House December 15, 2025.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Approved July 4, 2025. The act has no short title. Sections used: 70104 (child tax credit to $2,200), 70201 and 70202 (deductions for qualified tips, capped at $25,000, and qualified overtime, capped at $12,500 or $25,000 on a joint return, both reduced above $150,000 of modified adjusted gross income ($300,000 on a joint return) and ending after 2028), 70402 (up to $5,000 of the adoption credit refundable) and 71401 (Rural Health Transformation Program, $10,000,000,000 a year for fiscal years 2026 to 2030).
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Sets the words of every Congressional Review Act disapproval: "That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the ____ relating to ____, and such rule shall have no force or effect." Two resolutions on the same rule are word for word the same by law.
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Pages S2679 to S2682 of April 30, 2025. Senator Thune says the effort is "led here in the Senate by Senator Husted" (S2680), and Husted speaks for the House resolution (S2682).
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Page S1254 of February 27, 2018: the Senate appointees, with Orrin G. Hatch and Sherrod Brown named co-chairs.
Social Security Administration. SSA's update of July 10, 2025. The page refuses automated readers (HTTP 403), so it was read in the browser pane on September 24, 2026 and its text saved (sha256 92d9112271fe41ad49cf8ff77a93b1773dcd70be1d5b87cc737c3c5ee0f07cd8). It counts about 2.8 million current beneficiaries whose benefits the two provisions had reduced when the law passed. Its figure of over 3.1 million counts payments, not people.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. PBGC's workbook, "SFA Approved" sheet, updated as of September 18, 2026 (sha256 7f3cdee03c205e05e9750c8f38a796c9bbd797987305d8824c5ebdff5df4be02; the live file matched on September 24, 2026). It lists 21 approvals for plans located in Ohio: 17 plans, with 26,348 participants, once each supplemented application is counted once. Location is where a plan is based, not where its members live; Central States is listed in Chicago.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee, April 16 to June 30, 2026, received July 15, 2026, file 1997409; read from OpenFEC on September 23, 2026 as the most recent report and not amended.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee, April 16 to June 30, 2026, received July 15, 2026, file 1993936; read from OpenFEC on September 23, 2026 as the most recent report and not amended.
Federal Election Commission. April 1 to 15, 2026, amendment received July 1, 2026, file 1987446, which supersedes the original of April 23 (file 1970913) with the same totals.
Federal Election Commission. His second authorized committee (C00895276), April 1 to June 30, 2026, file 1990427: receipts $406.94, cash on hand $492.75.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee, April 16 to June 30, 2026, received July 15, 2026, file 1995817; not amended. The FEC lists him as an independent; he filed no campaign website with it.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee, April 16 to June 30, 2026, received July 11, 2026, file 1990465; not amended. Reports $5,000 in debt.
Federal Election Commission. A joint fundraising committee, registered September 11, 2025. It raised $17,045 in the second quarter and sent none of it to his campaign. His main joint fundraising committee in the quarter was the Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund, whose name does not include his.
Federal Election Commission. The FEC lists four joint fundraising committees for Husted: Husted Victory (C00937797, registered February 5, 2026), Team Husted (C00896928, registered January 30, 2025), the Barrasso Husted Moody Fund (C00948547, registered April 27, 2026) and Cleveland Husted Victory (C00956854, registered July 17, 2026, after the quarter). The first three were read for the second quarter.
Federal Election Commission. Joint fundraising committee, April 1 to June 30, 2026, file 1993399; receipts and cash on hand read from OpenFEC on September 25, 2026.
Federal Election Commission. Joint fundraising committee, April 1 to June 30, 2026, amended report file 1998893; its transfers to members were summed from its itemized disbursements in OpenFEC on September 25, 2026.
Federal Election Commission. Joint fundraising committee (C00916296), April 1 to June 30, 2026, file 1996155; its transfer to his campaign committee was summed from its itemized disbursements in OpenFEC on September 25, 2026.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC Schedule A on September 23, 2026 by tools/fec-money/money.py, which reads only lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from authorized committees), leaves out memo entries, and reconciles each line to the committee's summary total for the cycle. Individual contributions (line 11A), including those made through ActBlue or WinRed, are not read.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC Schedule A on September 23, 2026 by tools/fec-money/money.py, which reads only lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from authorized committees), leaves out memo entries, and reconciles each line to the committee's summary total for the cycle. Individual contributions (line 11A), including those made through ActBlue or WinRed, are not read.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC Schedule A on September 23, 2026 by tools/fec-money/money.py, which reads only lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from authorized committees), leaves out memo entries, and reconciles each line to the committee's summary total for the cycle. Individual contributions (line 11A), including those made through ActBlue or WinRed, are not read.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC Schedule A on September 23, 2026 by tools/fec-money/money.py, which reads only lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from authorized committees), leaves out memo entries, and reconciles each line to the committee's summary total for the cycle. Individual contributions (line 11A), including those made through ActBlue or WinRed, are not read.
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The details
Election facts. Original sources.
Election date
November 3, 2026
Launch rating
Cook Political Report: Toss Up; dated August 20, 2026
Ballot source updated
Official county list revised September 22, 2026; reviewed September 24, 2026.
Candidate field
Printed candidates checked against official election records.
What this page includes, and what is not yet included.
As of Sep 25, 2026. Each area lists only what has passed its source check. How coverage works.
BallotIncluded
4 printed candidates, checked September 2, 2026 against the official election record.
Race outlookIncluded
3 of 3 specialist ratings are current as of Sep 25, 2026.
Reported contextIncluded
1 dated development with original reporting attached.
Words and recordIncluded
19 statement-to-action comparisons across 4 candidate records, each with a stated limitation.
Campaign financeIncluded
FEC filing snapshots for 4 principal campaign committees, with a common coverage cutoff.
PollingNot yet
No published poll has been reviewed for this race yet.
No correction has been recorded for this race. Report an error.
Printed brief
Sources for this brief
Snapshot as of Sep 25, 2026. The live page may have changed since this copy was printed: https://statedrecord.com/races/ohio-us-senate-special-2026
Franklin County Board of Elections general candidate listhttps://vote.franklincountyohio.gov/getmedia/e0a4ca45-6893-45c1-8190-87696f8804b4/2026-General-Candidate-List-5
Cook Political Report Senate ratingshttps://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings