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Sam Brownback

Sam Brownback

He was born in Parker, Kansas and raised on a farm where his mother and father still live.  He was a leader in high school, in Future Farmers of America as state president, as student body president at Kansas State University and president of his class at University of Kansas Law School. 

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 with the Republican Revolution in 1994.  In 1996, he was elected to the U.S. Senate seat held by Bob Dole.

In the U.S. Senate, Sam serves on the Appropriations, Judiciary, and Joint Economic Committees.  He is the Ranking Member on the Joint Economic Committee on the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee as well as the subcommittee responsible for the Constitution.  He also serves on the Helsinki Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, co-chairs the Senate Cancer Coalition and the Human Rights Caucus, chairs the Senate Values Action Team, and is a founding member of the Senate Fiscal Watch Team.

Over the years, Sam has been a radio broadcaster, attorney, teacher, administrator, congressman and senator.  Senator Brownback and his wife Mary have five children and live in Topeka, Kansas.

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Pat Roberts

Pat Roberts

A fourth generation Kansan from Dodge City, Senator Pat Roberts' service to the people of Kansas spans more than two decades. First as an eight-term congressman from the First District and now in his second term as United States Senator.

As a new member of the Senate Finance Committee in the 110th Congress, a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, the former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee for four years.

Born in Topeka April 20, 1936, Roberts is the son of the late Wes Roberts, Chairman of the Republican National Committee under President Dwight Eisenhower. His great-grandfather, J.W. Roberts, founded the Oskaloosa Independent, the state's second oldest newspaper.

Following graduation from Kansas State University in 1958, Roberts served in the U.S. Marine Corps for four years, then worked as a reporter and editor for several Arizona newspapers. He joined the staff of Kansas’ U.S. Senator Frank Carlson in 1967. In 1969, Roberts became Administrative Assistant to First District U.S. Congressman Keith Sebelius. Roberts was elected to Congress in 1980, succeeding Sebelius upon his retirement. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996 following the retirement of Senator Nancy Kassebaum (Baker) and won re-election in 2002.

Roberts and his wife, Franki, have three grown children – David, Ashleigh and Anne-Wesley.

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