Corrine Brown

Corrine Brown ( born November 11, 1946 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American politician. Since 1993, it represents the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Corrine Brown studied until 1971 at the Florida A & M University in Tallahassee and then to 1974 at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She then joined the faculty of the University of Florida, the Edward Waters College and Florida Community College at Jacksonville. At the same time she began a career in politics as a member of the Democratic Party.

Between 1983 and 1993 Brown sat as a Member of the House of Representatives from Florida. In the congressional elections of 1992, it was the third electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Charles Edward Bennett on 3 January 1993. After nine previously re- elections, they can exercise their mandate in Congress today. Since it was confirmed in the congressional elections of 2010, with 63 % of the vote, they can take another term in Congress on January 3, 2011.

In the U.S. House of Representatives Corinne Brown is a member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the veterans committee and in some of their sub- committees. In the past, they came sometimes in headlines in connection with the handling of campaign contributions. Brown was an opponent of the policies of President George W. Bush. She called, among other things, the processes involved in the counting of votes in Florida in the 2000 presidential election as a " coup d'etat ".