Corrine Brown Voting Records, Corruption Findings, Earmarking Tendencies

Corrine Brown Voting Records in Congress

Corruption in Congress or Ethical "Challenges"

Earmarking Tendencies

State: Florida Party: Democrat Former Occupation: Politician, Teacher Representative Since: 1993 Next Election: 2010

(Note: all corruption will not be listed. Since "corrupt" is a yes/no descriptor, further investigations become redundant after one incident is uncovered.)

Corrine Brown Results of Corruption Investigation and/or Ethical Problems:

Paybacks:

An official ethics complaint had to be filed against Corrine Brown by Congressional Accountability Project after the St. Petersburg Times uncovered a $50000 Lexus "gifted" to her daughter by Foutanga Sissoko after Brown lobbied Janet Reno and fellow members of Congress to secure release of Sissoko who was being held on charges of bribing a Customs officer.

Brown also has a history of using taxpayer financed earmarks to support her daughter's employer, lobbying group AlCalde & Faye (CitizensforEthics.org). According to the Seattle Times, Brown earmarked $1.6 Million for her daughter's client Community Rehabilitation Center in 2008. Legistorm also uncovered a $307,000 2008 and a $285,000 2009 earmark for the Center by Brown.

Corrine Brown Voting or Legislative History in Congress:

• Tort Reform - Medical Malpractice Reform S11 7/03:

  No, Representative Brown opposes reform

• Balanced Budget Amendment:

  No, Brown has not supported requiring Congress to spend within government means.

• Oil Drilling in US - ANWR (Alaska) HouseVote#831 8/07, Offshore HR4761 6/06:

  No, Corrine Brown prefers dependence upon importation of oil, opposing energy independence efforts that include drilling for US oil supplies.

• Cap and Trade HR 2454 6/09:

  Yes, Brown supports increased taxes and surcharges on US production of goods and energy.

• Amnesty/Citizenship for Illegal Border Crossers S2611 5/06:

  Yes, Corrine Brown supports granting citizenship to those who manage to slip into the country illegally.

• Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act HR 4173 12/09:

  Yes, Corrine Brown supports federal government expansion of involvement and control over private industry.

• Auto Company Bailouts HR 7005 12/08:

  Yes, supports taxpayer bailouts of private industry

• Bank Bailouts -TARP HR1424 10/08:

  Yes, Brown supports taxpayer bailouts for financial institutions that gamble and lose

• 2009 Stimulus Bill HR1 2/09:

  Yes, Supported the $787 Billion spending plan

• 2009 Omnibus HR1105 3/09:

  Yes, Representative Brown supported the 9000+ earmark, 8.3% government expansion bill

• Health Care HR3590 12/09:

  Yes, Supported laying groundwork for federal takeover of Healthcare delivery

Corrine Brown Earmark History:

• Prolific. Extensive Earmark History Compared to Colleagues in House of Representatives

  • $74,840,889 of taxpayer money requested by Corrine Brown in 2009 budget specifically for entities and projects not considered worthy of financing through transparent means in the official federal budget.(Ref: Center for Responsive Politics and Taxpayers for Common Sense)

Charted Comparison of House Colleagues to Corrine Brown Voting Records

Charted Comparison Corruption Investigations for House of Representatives Colleagues of Brown