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  Sam Brownback - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brownback is married to the former Mary Stauffer, heiress to a Topeka newspaper fortune.
Brownback is an outspoken, socially conservative politician, joining staunch senate conservatives such as Rick Santorum, Pat Roberts and Tom Coburn on issues of social legislation.
Brownback is also trying to introduce price transparency to the US health care industry [6], as well as a bill which would require the disclosure of Medicare payment rate information [7].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sam_Brownback   (1049 words)

  
 Sam Brownback - dKosopedia
Kansas Republican Senator Sam Brownback holds a degree in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University and a law degree from the University of Kansas.
Brownback has all but declared his candidacy for 2008, a race in which he seeks to carry the standard for the Christian Right as one of the Senate's most outspoken opponents of abortion and gay rights.
Brownback proudly admits to his participation in a "behind-the-scenes" religious organization, called The Fellowship or The Family, that considers politicians it favors appointed by God; organizes said politicians into off-the-record cells to study government-by-Bible; and looks to history's strongmen from across the spectrum -- Lenin, Pol Pot, and yes, Hitler -- for leadership lessons.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Sam_Brownback   (395 words)

  
 VDARE.com: 03/03/03 - Sam Brownback and the Somali Bantu
VDARE.com: 03/03/03 - Sam Brownback and the Somali Bantu
State Department officials say Brownback had told both them and U.N. refugee chief Ruud Lubbers that he was “interested in resettling more refugees in Kansas.” State began exploring the feasibility of resettling the Bantu in Wichita, Kansas.
Sam Brownback’s change of heart was chronicled in a local paper but never picked up by the national media.
www.vdare.com /allen/brownback.htm   (1489 words)

  
 All Immigration Votes of Senator Sam Brownback
Brownback’s vote was important; the reformers were only 28 votes short of approving the end of chain migration.
Brownback voted against the Cornyn Amendment (SA 3691, proposed for Sen. Isakson) to S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006.
Brownback voted for more foreign workers even though U.S. high tech workers over the age of 50 were suffering 17% unemployment and U.S. firms were laying off thousands of workers at the time.
profiles.numbersusa.com /improfile.php3?DistSend=KS&VIPID=317   (4982 words)

  
 NPR : Sen. Sam Brownback's Politics of Faith
Sam Brownback was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996 to fill a seat left vacant by Majority Leader Bob Dole.
Republican Sam Brownback of Kansas has been one of the Senate's most outspoken social conservatives since he was first elected in 1996.
Now, Brownback is contemplating a run for president himself, believing his appeal to the social conservatives who comprise the core of the Republican Party can win him the GOP nomination.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5199209   (956 words)

  
 Sam Brownback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Brownback was elected to a full term in the Senate in 1998.
Brownback is married to the former Mary Stauffer, EHandler: no quick summary.
Brownback is an outspokenly socially conservative conservatism quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sam_brownback.htm   (745 words)

  
 Catholics for Senator Sam Brownback
Brownback said basically biology has convinced him that life begins at conception and should be legally protected from that point onward.
Brownback, who said he came to the hearing “seeking wisdom,” asked whether executions could be consistent with a pro-life culture.
Brownback conceded he lacked a “cogent or coherent” response on where the death penalty fit into society, noting that it could be defended if it were used sparingly, only in the cases of heinous crimes in which there was no other way to protect society.
catholicsforbrownback.blogspot.com   (2039 words)

  
 Project Vote Smart - Senator Brownback - Interest Group Ratings
For 2000, the Concord Coalition gave Senator Brownback a rating of 22 percent.
Fall 2004 Senator Brownback supported the interests of the Conservative Index - The John Birch Society 90 percent in Fall 2004.
The Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel assigned Senator Brownback a score of -3.
www.vote-smart.org /issue_rating_category.php?can_id=CNIP7813   (9169 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : God's Senator
Brownback is unlikely to receive the Republican presidential nomination -- but as the candidate of the Christian right, he may well be in a position to determine who does, and what they include in their platform.
Brownback got involved in the Fellowship in 1979, as a summer intern for Bob Dole, when he lived in a residence the group had organized in a sorority house at the University of Maryland.
Brownback even lived with other cell members in a million-dollar, red-brick former convent at 133 C Street that was subsidized and operated by the Fellowship.
www.rollingstone.com /politics/story/9178374/gods_senator   (6609 words)

  
 The Anti-Sam Brownback Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sam Brownback, a conservative Republican from Kansas, told The Hill that he would vote for the immigration overhaul as long as no amendments are approved that would significantly expand the number of immigrants coming into the country or reduce the level of enforcement.
Brownback has been criticized in conservative circles for supporting legislation that would offer most of the nation’s illegal immigrants work permits and a route to citizenship.
Brownback is a true believer, and for better or worse, generally speaks his mind.
www.theantisam.com   (1300 words)

  
 The Distinguished Christian Statesman Award 2000 - Sam Brownback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Senator Sam Brownback is living proof that a cellular phone call can change your life.
At the time, Brownback was a rising star in the G.O.P. who was swept into office as part of the Contract with America.
Brownback has also helped foster understanding of issues of faith on Capitol Hill, serving as co-chair with Sen. Joseph Lieberman for the Center for Jewish and Christian Values.
www.statesman.org /PAGES/Awards/2000.asp   (429 words)

  
 AsiaSource Interview with Senator Sam Brownback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sam Brownback was born in Kansas on September 12, 1956.
Brownback was elected to the US Congress in 1994, representing the Second District of Kansas.
Brownback is the chairman of the Helsinki Commission.
www.asiasource.org /news/special_reports/brownback.cfm   (3528 words)

  
 ABC News: GOP Senator Concerned About Miers' Abortion Views
Sam Brownback, R-Kan, told "Good Morning America" today he believes the landmark case that legalized abortion, needs to be reconsidered "because of the effects that Roe v.
Brownback acknowledged that Miers cannot explicitly say how she would rule on abortion because that would be considered "pre-judging" an issue that is likely to come before her, should she be concerned.
Brownback said there is "precious little to go on" to determine where Miers stands on many divisive issues.
abcnews.go.com /GMA/story?id=1184984   (315 words)

  
 The Revealer: Sam Brownback Is A Fruit
Brownback, the most ambitious -- and maybe most powerful -- religious conservative in U.S. politics, is one of the fruits by which we can evaluate the health of democracy in America.
Brownback was making it even worse by trying to back it up with social science (with a study that has been thoroughly debunked).
Brownback calls this knowledge “natural law,” but the “evidence” produced by a heart that hates homosexuality is a far cry from the “natural law” St. Paul spoke of in Romans 1:19-20, which simply holds that gentiles as well as Jews could infer God from the world around them.
www.therevealer.org /archives/timely_002408.php   (4407 words)

  
 Brownback for US Senate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sam Brownback was born September 12, 1956, and grew up on the farm his family still operates near Parker, Kansas.
As a member of the House of Representatives, Brownback took a leading role in helping reduce the size and intrusiveness of the federal government, reforming the Congress, and to helping return the country to its traditional values.
Brownback is a constant voice for increased responsibility in the entertainment industry.
www.brownback.com /aboutSam.html   (507 words)

  
 VDARE.com: 02/08/05 - State Department Patriots vs. Sen. Sam Brownback—“Conservative” Treason Lobby Mouthpiece
Arch-immigration enthusiast Senator Sam Brownback (R, Kansas) is a leader of the human rights movement and an advocate of "immigration reform" worthy of emulation by Democrats.
A convert to conservative Catholicism, Brownback hails from the evangelical Protestant wing of the political/social right, but is beloved of the left-wing American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) as well as the business immigration lobby.
Brownback told me enthusiastically about his trip to northern Uganda and urged me to write about brutalities there.
www.vdare.com /allen/050208_mouthpiece.htm   (841 words)

  
 Sam Brownback's Blind Ambition Tour
Brownback's hold went largely under the radar in Washington, but outside the Beltway, his base was ecstatic.
While she and her guests made the requisite calls for Bush's re-election, the spotlight was on their hero, Sam Brownback, who was honored with an award and given the podium for a speech.
Among Brownback's most notable accomplishments was the gutting of restrictions on the herbicide atrazine, which has been proven to increase the incidence of lymphoma among residents in areas where it is used.
www.thenation.com /doc/20050704/blumenthal   (1873 words)

  
 Congressional Briefing: Sam Brownback in Rolling Stone | LJWorld.com
The misunderstanding is unfortunate, because it’s drawing attention away from what is perhaps the most comprehensive portrait of Brownback, the Kansas senator who is poised to run for president in 2008 — albeit a portrait drawn in a notably liberal magazine.
Brownback, Santorum, and the like are so far removed from reality that an informed public would be able to see these senators for what they are: a threat to those who do not share their religious beliefs.
Its hardly bizarre that 'Taliban Sam' is "unlikely to receive the Republican presidential nomination." What is bizarre is that his recent re-election campaign in Kansas drew only a politically-virginal retired railroad engineer who as I recall got the Democrat nomination only after the primary winner (another railroad engineer) decided he didn't really wan to run.
www2.ljworld.com /blogs/kansas_congress/2006/jan/31/stone   (1709 words)

  
 [FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great :: View topic - Brownback criticizes UN failure to censure China, ...
WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Sam Brownback today criticized the United Nations for failing to censure China and Iran for their grave human rights records.
Brownback also spoke about women who had been tortured and sexually abused to force them to give evidence against Pastor Gong Shengliang of the South China Church, as well as video footage he had seen of the destruction of churches in China.
Brownback also deplored the decision by the Western block of nations led by the European Union not to table a resolution censuring flagrant human rights violations by Irans ruling theocracy.
www.activistchat.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2019   (1709 words)

  
 Sam Brownback In 2008 | Loaded Mouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pat Robertson is pushing for Senator Sam Brownback to run for President in 2008.
To give you an idea of just how entrench the Senator from Kansas is with the Christian Right, Brownback is one of the sponsers of the hysterically-worded Constitution Restoration Act of 2005.
Note: Brownback is the winner of 2000 Distinguished Christian Statesman.
loadedmouth.com /node/1739   (473 words)

  
 Brownback for U.S. Senate
I support Senator Brownback because he is genuinely concerned with and is taking action on issues that are important to the Hispanic community in Kansas and across the country."
Brownback makes first political trip to NH Brownback visiting Iowa, New Hampshire in test of possible presidential bid
Brownback Visits Kansas City and Wichita: Key Events with the Asian American Community and Young Professionals
www.brownback.com   (263 words)

  
 Senator Sam Brownback Meets With AILA Attorneys, U.S. Immigration, The Law Offices of Carl Shusterman ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Senator Brownback was named the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Immigration just a few days prior to the meeting.
Senator Brownback emphasized that he is "pro-immigration", and stated that "the country grows on immigration".
Senator Brownback believes that the U.S. should be accepting a greater number of refugees, and stated that U.S. refugee policy has not treated Africans fairly.
www.shusterman.com /photo11.html   (201 words)

  
 Anybody But Brownback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The fact is, Sam Brownback is a member of this "elect" cult and has co-sponsored Senate bill 520, designed to allow federal, state, and local government officials to overrule all other laws by appealing to the "higher source" of all law ("God") and to forbid the Supreme Court from doing anything about it.
Note for the irony-deaf: Sam supports this mean and stupid amendment and I oppose it.
Brownback is one of the most arrogant self-serving buttheaded buttkissers in office.
www.rainbowtel.net /~bryants/abb.htm   (989 words)

  
 Senator Sam Brownback on Marriage on National Review Online
As the United States Senate debates the wisdom of a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman and protects against judicially-mandated same-sex unions, it is important to keep in mind the costs that we face as a society if we fail to protect traditional marriage.
Once the process of "defining marriage down" begins, it is but a short step to the dissolution of marriage as a vital institution.
— The Honorable Sam Brownback is a Republican senator from Kansas.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/brownback200407090921.asp   (1492 words)

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