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Corrine Brown is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 3rd district of Florida. She was elected to Congress in 1992.

Background

A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Congresswoman Brown served in the Florida House of Representatives for ten years before coming to Washington. Congresswoman Brown attended the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University where she earned a Bachelor of Science Degree. She also received a Master's Degree and an Education Specialist Degree from the University of Florida. and an Honorary Doctor of Law Degree from Edward Waters College. She has been a faculty member at Florida Community College of Jacksonville, the University of Florida, and Edward Waters College.[1]

Committees

Brown was reelected to the U.S. House of Representatives for a tenth term in November 2010. In the 112th Congress, she will serve as the Ranking Member of the Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials and as a senior member of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, as well as the Subcommittee on Water & Environment. Ms. Brown will also continue to serve on the Committee on Veterans Affairs and the VA Subcommittee on Health.[2]

Congressional Progressive Caucus

In 1998 Corrine Brown Democrat was listed as a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.[3]

As of February 20 2009 Corrine Brown was listed as a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.[4]

Endorsed communist candidate

In 2002, with the motto, “Protect the real Florida – for working people!” Communist Party USA member Russell Pelle ran for the Soil and Water Conservation Board in Duval County Florida , "hammering Republican Gov. Jeb Bush for coddling corporate polluters and real estate developers".

Pelle called for protection of Florida’s fragile environment. “Everywhere I go, I tell voters I am running against Jeb Bush,” Pelle told the Peoples Weekly World. “The Soil and Water Board is pretty low on the electoral totem pole but Bush’s policies have been a disaster for the Florida environment. If I am elected, I will fight urban sprawl, fight to protect the people from toxic wastes.”

Pelle was endorsed by the North Florida Central Labor Council (NFCLC), Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) and by Tony Hill, a community organizer for the Service Employees International Union who won the Democratic nomination for State Senate from Jacksonville in Florida’s Sept. 10 primary.[5]

Another link to communist Russell Pelle

In January 2010 Communist Party USA member Russell Pelle was on the phone with his fiancee when she started to scream. Calling from Haiti, she was in a building that started to shake from an aftershock following the earthquake.

"I told her to get outside as quickly as possible," said Pelle, who didn't hear from her again for three days.

Pelle was one of the people who attended Saturday's news conference with U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Florida, and senior pastors from Jacksonville. The pastors will urge parishioners to bring water and make donations to Haiti relief funds today during church.

"I am confident that our nation will provide emergency relief and support to the Haitian people during this critical time," Brown said.

Pastors from St. Paul Baptist Church, Bethel Baptist Church, Shiloh Baptist Church, Open Arms Christian Fellowship, Abyssinia Baptist Church and Sanctuary at Mount Calvary will take part.[6]

Staffer's 2004 trip to Cuba

In May 2004, Roshan Hodge from the office of Congresswoman Corrine Brown spent four days in Havana, Cuba, for the purpose of "fact finding". The trip cost $1,350.16 and was paid for by the Christopher Reynolds Foundation.[7]

Supported "single payer"

The movement for universal single-payer healthcare is growing, announced Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare in December 2005. Six new co-sponsors added their names to John Conyers' "single payer" bill HR 676: Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.), Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), Corrine Brown (D-Fla.), Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) and Michael Capuano (D-Mass.). The total number of co-sponsors was now 57.[8]

UFPJ rally

On October 27th 2007, United for Peace and Justice held an Anti-war National Mobilization, near Orlando, Florida at Lake Eola.[9]

Speakers Included:

EMILY's List

Brown has been supported by EMILY's List during her campaigning.

Staff

The following have worked as staff members for Corrine Brown:[10]

External links

References

  1. ↑ Congressional bio, accessed Aug. 4, 2011
  2. ↑ Congressional bio, accessed Aug. 4, 2011
  3. ↑ DSA website: Members of the Progressive Caucus (archived on the Web Archive website)
  4. ↑ Congressional Progressive Caucus website: Caucus Member List
  5. ↑ Unions back fired prof. for soil & water post, PPW, Evelina Alarcon & John Pappademos, October 17 2002
  6. ↑ Jacksonville churches band together to help Haiti, florida times Union, January 17, 2010
  7. ↑ American Radio Works website: Trips sponsored by the Christopher Reynolds Foundation
  8. ↑ Peoples World, This week in labor, December 3, 2005
  9. ↑ http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalgrace/1796102282/
  10. ↑ Legistorm: Corrine Brown (accessed on Aug. 24, 2010)
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