ENG:Corrine Brown(born November 11, 1946) is a U.S. Representative for Florida's 5th congressional district, serving in Congress since 1993. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes parts of Duval, Clay, Putnam, Alachua, Volusia, Marion, Lake, Seminole, and Orange Counties.
Early life, education, and academic career
Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Brown earned a bachelor of science from Florida A&M University in 1969 In college she became a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, one of four African American Greek letter sororities in the United States. She earned a master's degree in 1971 and an educational specialist degree from the University of Florida in 1974. She received an Honorary Doctor of Law degree from Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, and has ...
Two members of Congress from Florida have vowed to take their redistricting case to the U.S. Supreme Court after a Miami judge squashed their challenge to a state constitutional amendment limiting how districts are drawn for congressional elections.
Federal Judge Ursula Ungaro, following a short hearing in Miami federal court,ruled that the amendment passed by a majority of Florida voters last November did not violate the U.S. Constitution, as minority House members Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Miami, and Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, argued in their lawsuit.
Amendment 6 forbids the state ...
Congresswoman Corrine Brown said Thursday, Gov. Rick Scott has no authority to deny federal government funding to the Orlando area’s Workforce Central Florida (WCF) Program, which provides education and job training services to those struggling to get back on their feet. Brown added that, despite the current troubles of the jobs agency, it is out of Scott’s purview to halt the program’s funding.
In line with this, Brown issued the following statement:
“I convened a meeting today with senior leadership officials at the Department of Labor in Washington to make sure ...
At a Florida redistricting hearing in Jacksonville Monday, Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown called her meandering congressional district — stretching from the First Coast to Gainesville and touching Orlando — the “most popular” district in America, given that it is drawing so much attention.
She was being facetious, of course, because her district has been bulletin-board material for the Fair Districts Florida campaign to end political gerrymandering. She is also a plaintiff in the ongoing legal fight to invalidate redistricting reforms that could make it harder to ...