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| Affiliation | Republican |
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2011-01-01 |
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| Name | Sam Brownback |
| Address | 2605 SW 21st Street
Topeka, Kansas , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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 X (Twitter) | sensambrownback |
| Born |
September 12, 1956
(68 years)
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| Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Oct 14, 2016 10:06pm |
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| Info | Samuel Dale Brownback
Sam Brownback has spent his life in the service of others. He was born in Garnett, Kansas and raised on a Linn County farm where his mother and father still live. He was state president of Future Farmers of America, student body president at Kansas State University and president of his class at the University of Kansas Law School.
Over the years, Sam has been a radio broadcaster, attorney, teacher, administrator, congressman and senator.
Sam served as a White House Fellow in the first Bush Administration and was the youngest Secretary of Agriculture in Kansas history. When he was 38, he was elected to the House of Representatives from the 2nd Congressional District covering Eastern Kansas. In 1996, he was elected to the U.S. Senate seat once held by Bob Dole.
In the Senate, Sam is an effective advocate for Kansas interests. From his position on the powerful Appropriations Committee, he has supported vital transportation projects creating thousands of Kansas jobs and improving the competitiveness of Kansas businesses. He has also won significant support for Kansas schools including the National Institute for Aviation Research in Wichita, KU Med Center and the Kansas Polymer Research Center at Pittsburg State University.
In the current Congress, Sam Brownback is the top-ranking Republican on the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, which oversees U.S. Department of Agriculture programs as well as food safety and agencies responsible for protection of public health such as the Food and Drug Administration.
As a member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee, Sam's top priority is to insure full support for the National Bio-Agri Defense facility in Kansas. As part of the team that won this competition for Kansas, Sam is now working to see that Kansas reaps the full benefits of this exciting development, new high-paying jobs, value-added research and billions of dollars in long-term economic development.
Sam is pushing for meaningful tax reform and an optional flat tax, a BRAC-like commission to review and terminate failed or completed federal programs, and to build market and consumer based solutions to health care reform. He is a founding member of the Senate Fiscal Watch Team and strongly supports a balanced budget and reform of the earmark and appropriations process. He believes deeply that we must defend traditional marriage, confirm judges who will interpret the law and not legislate from the bench, protect and renew our American culture and defend innocent human life at every stage of development.
Sam and Mary Brownback.
Senator Brownback and his wife Mary have five children; Abby, Andy, Liz, Mark and Jenna. They live in Topeka.
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