Rep. Andy Brenner appointed vice-chair of Education Committee

House Speaker Bill Batchelder announced that Rep. Andrew Bren­ner (R-Powell) has been appointed as vice-chair of the House Edu­ca­tion Com­mit­tee for the 130th Gen­eral Assem­bly (2013–2014). In addi­tion, Rep. Bren­ner will con­tinue to serve on the Finan­cial Insti­tu­tions /Housing /Urban Devel­op­ment Com­mit­tee and the Rules and Ref­er­ence Com­mit­tee. Speaker Batchelder also appointed Bren­ner to the new Pol­icy and Leg­isla­tive Over­sight Committee.

“I am grate­ful to the Speaker for this appoint­ment and his faith in my abil­ity to serve the peo­ple of Ohio in this posi­tion. Reform­ing our edu­ca­tion sys­tem so that every child receives the best pos­si­ble edu­ca­tion is of the utmost impor­tance to me,” Bren­ner said. “ Work­ing with Chair­man Ste­bel­ton, Speaker Batchelder and Gov­er­nor Kasich, I look for­ward to help­ing to shape reforms to pos­i­tively impact our young people’s future.

Bren­ner was sworn-in on Jan­u­ary 7.

As State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive, Rep. Bren­ner received the 2011 “Defender of Lib­erty” award from the Amer­i­can Con­ser­v­a­tive Union and the 2012 Watch­dog of the Trea­sury Award. Rep. Bren­ner voted to elim­i­nate the death tax, bal­ance Ohio’s bud­get with­out rais­ing taxes, lower our taxes, bring jobs to Ohio, help make Ohio energy inde­pen­dent, help busi­nesses thrive, pro­tect the life of the unborn (includ­ing sup­port­ing the “heart­beat bill”) and pro­tect the Sec­ond Amendment.

Rep. Bren­ner intro­duced leg­is­la­tion to pro­vide more money for the edu­ca­tion sys­tem in Ohio with­out rais­ing our prop­erty taxes and to allow a private-sector solu­tion to train peo­ple for open jobs in Ohio.

Posted by Gary Henery on Jan 30 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.