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Natural Resources and the Environment 



It was George Brown's 11th year in the Congress before he became 

 a subcommittee chairman. He might have become chairman of the full 

 committee but for two developments. First, he did not opt to join the 

 Science Committee until his second term started in 1965. Second, he 

 hied for the U.S. Senate in 1970, and was defeated in the Democratic 

 primary. He returned to the House of Representatives in 1973, and 

 became chairman of the subcommittee named "Environment and the 

 Atmosphere" at the start of 1975- 



Brown received a degree in industrial physics from the University 

 of California at Los Angeles. After serving in several engineering and 

 management positions for the city of Los Angeles, he was elected to 

 the Monterey Park city council and became mayor of that city and then 

 a member of the State assembly. One of California's new congressional 

 districts enabled Brown to run and win the first time in 1962. When he 

 came back to win in 1972 after his Senate defeat, Brown chose another 

 new district around Riverside and San Bernardino counties. 



One of the earliest and most adamant opponents of the Vietnam 

 war, Brown gained a reputation as a flaming, fighting liberal with a 

 100 percent labor voting record. He mellowed considerably during his 

 later service in the House, avoiding personal confrontations, and care- 

 fully choosing the issues on which he took a stand. Brown set a goal 

 of building cooperative relationships in a spirit of good will, both 

 within the committee, with his colleagues, the executive branch and 

 also on the outside. Whether by accident or design, the bread cast 

 upon the water was returned many-fold, and Brown was soon scoring 

 a string of notable legislative victories. While other Congressmen 

 were strenuously fighting to defend their jurisdictional turf, Brown 

 was cautioning: 



There is more than enough work for all of us in Congress and we could move 

 much more effectively by concentrating on working together, not struggling against 

 each other or blindly pursuing independent and non-communicating courses. 



Brown has a very broad perspective of the interrelationship of 

 peoples and problems throughout the world, a perspective rooted in 

 history as well as a vision of the future. "I have a lifetime interest in 

 scientific research and its application to human affairs," Brown says, 

 and proves it in practice. A strong advocate of "appropriate tech- 



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