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U.S. House Now Home to Four
Fulbright Alumni Fulbrighters now
represent districts in Ariz., Md, Iowa, and Okla.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 20, 2006)--The
2006 U.S. midterm elections saw one Fulbrighter easily re-elected to the House
and three others elected to Congress for the first time, bringing to four the
number of Fulbrighters serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. There are
no Fulbright alumni currently serving in the U.S. Senate.
Rep. Tom Cole, a Fulbrighter to the United Kingdom in
1977, was easily re-elected to a third term representing Oklahoma’s fourth
congressional district. Rep. Cole was also elected by the GOP recently to serve
as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which oversees
Republican election and re-election campaigns for the House. Rep. Cole has
served on the Fulbright Association’s board of directors since 2000.
Bio and Contact Information
The citizens of Arizona’s eighth congressional district
elected Gabrielle Giffords as their representative in the House. Giffords, a
Fulbrighter to Mexico in 1993, is the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S.
Congress. Bio and Contact
Information
Cornell College Professor of Politics David W. Loebsack was elected to represent
Iowa's 2nd congressional district. Rep. Loebsack participated in
Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminars in Mexico in 1983 and in Brazil in 1987.
Bio and Contact Information
Towson, Md., resident and son of former U.S. Senator
Paul Sarbanes was elected to the House as a representative of Maryland’s third
congressional district. John P. Sarbanes was a Fulbright fellow to Greece in 1985.
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The
Fulbright Association is a private, non-profit organization that supports and
promotes the Fulbright Program, an international educational and cultural
exchange initiative created in 1946 by legislation sponsored by the late Senator
J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. There are Fulbright exchanges between the
United States and more than 160 other countries and more than 275,000 grants
have been awarded since the program's inception. For information on
legislation affecting the Fulbright Program, please visit the Fulbright
Association's e-advocacy site at
http://www.fulbright.org/advocacy.
