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Sherrod Brown

Sherrod Brown

A native of Mansfield, Ohio, an Eagle Scout, and the winner of the Boy Scout's highest religious award - the Lutheran Church's Pro Deo Et Patria. Sherrod is a graduate of Yale University and earned Masters' Degrees from The Ohio State University in education and public administration. He has an honorary doctorate from Capital University.

He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974.  He was Ohio's Secretary of State from (1983-1990).

Prior to his serving in Congress, Sherrod worked with The Ohio State University's renowned Mershon Center to write the curriculum, and train teachers and educators in Poland about democracy, after the Communist government fell.

Senator Brown sits on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and the Banking Committee. He's the first Ohio Senator in 40 years to sit on the Agriculture and Nutrition Committee and the first Ohio Senator to serve a full term on the Veterans committee.

The tradition of public service continues in the Brown family. His wife, Connie Schultz, a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, "...for her pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged."

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George Voinovich

George Voinovich

Senator Voinovich knows that to remain competitive, the United States must control energy costs and has called for a “Second Declaration of Independence” from foreign sources of energy.  Much like our nation committed itself when the Russians launched Sputnik and we entered the race to space, Sen. Voinovich believes we should have a national commitment to becoming energy independent.  With so much at stake, leaders can no longer merely feign interest in our country’s energy needs.
 
This is important not just for the economy, but for our national security.  In this era when the United States is engaged in a Global War on Terror, energy independence is even more critical.  The nation that is energy independent is the nation that will be the dominant force of the 21st century.  Work must begin now to prepare for the future.

George Voinovich’s work as mayor of Cleveland earned him praise from the National Urban Coalition, which hailed him as one of four distinguished urban mayors in America, as well as City and State magazine, which named him to the “All-Pro Management Team” and recognized him as one of the top three mayors in the country.  In 1985, he was elected president of the National League of Cities, on whose board he sat from 1981-1989.  George Voinovich is the only person to have served as chairman of the National Governors Association and president of the National League of Cities.

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