1996 – Roll Call 102- Brown voted for increasing the public debt limit to $5.5 trillion.
1997 – Roll Call 241 – Brown voted against the Balanced Budget Act of 1997
2008 – Roll Call 66 – Brown voted against cutting $750 million in wasteful government spending.
2008 – Roll Call 96 – Brown voted for the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, which increased the debt ceiling to $10.615 trillion
2008 – Roll Call 153 – Brown voted against removing a $300 billion earmark for FHA Insurance.
2008 – Roll Call 213 – Brown voted for the infamous Wall Street Bailout (TARP), which allocated $700 billion in taxpayer funds to buy “toxic assets”.
2009 – Roll Call 38 – On the Motion: S.Amdt.168 To stop implementation of the stimulus spending.
In the nature of a substitute. To stop implementation of the stimulus spending.
2009 – Roll Call 61 – Brown voted for the $825 billion stimulus package – American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- increased the debt ceiling to $12.104 trillion.
2009 – Roll Call 397- Brown again voted to increase the debt ceiling to $12.394 trillion.
2010 – Roll Call 2 – On the Amendment: S.Amdt.3301 To terminate TARP
This amendment would terminate the Troubled Asset Relief Program. This is a $700 billion taxpayer-funded bailout to big banks and corporations.
2010 – Roll Call 14 – Brown voted to increase the limit on the national debt ceiling to $14.294 trillion
2011 – Roll Call 116 – Voted to table, and ultimately destroy, the Cap, Cut, and Balance Act of 2011, which proposed to reduce total spending by $111 billion in FY 2012
2011 – Roll Call 123 – Voted for the Budget Control Act, which immediately raise the federal debt limit by $400 billion