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 Former Congressman George J. Hochbrueckner,
presently heads a Consulting Firm, George J. Hochbrueckner
& Associates (GJHA) based on Long Island, New York with an office located near Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
The firm was established in March 1995 and has served a variety of companies.
Included among them are Telephonics, Hazeltine, EDO Corporation, Dayton T. Brown, Brookhaven
National Laboratory, Advanced Acoustic Concepts in New York, TROY Systems in Virginia,
as well as Quantum Group and Whittaker Corporation in California. He presently serves as
"of Counsel" to O'Connor & Hannan, a
respected Washington DC law firm.
In his four terms
[1987-1995] as the Congressman for the First District of New York, he
distinguished himself as a leader on issues critical to Long
Island and our nation such as defense conversion and
environmental protection. Hochbrueckner utilized
his technical training as an engineer to address these issues while serving
on both the House Armed Services and Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committees
for eight years.
With the demise of the
Soviet Union and the changes in Europe, Hochbrueckner played a vital role on the Armed Services
Committee. Hochbrueckner worked to maintain a
strong defense and to protect Long Island's
economic community, which relied heavily on the defense industry. He led the
successful battle in 1989 to provide funding for the Long
Island built F-14D "Tomcat" fighter aircraft.
Hochbrueckner helped organize the India Caucus
in the U.S. Congress in order to improve the relationship between India and the United States. Hochbrueckner and his wife, Carol Ann visited India in
1994, where he met with Prime Minister Rao and
conveyed President Clinton's invitation to the Prime Minister to visit the
United States. That visit was highly successful during which Hochbrueckner arranged for Prime Minister Rao to address a Joint-Session of Congress.
As the only engineer on
the House Armed Services Committee, he worked with defense-based firms
nationally to diversify into producing commercial products in order to help
make the U.S.
more competitive in the world marketplace. As a leading Member of the
Research and Development Sub-committee, Hochbrueckner
was the key sponsor of the initial funding for a variety of leading edge
technologies. While in Congress, Hochbrueckner
successfully obtained $175 million in research funding for X-ray lithography,
a candidate technology to produce the next generation of smaller and faster
computer chips in the effort to restore America's lead in the computer
chip field. In addition, Hochbrueckner obtained
$1.2 billion for the Technology Reinvestment Program [TRP] nationwide.
Hochbrueckner has been a national leader in
protecting the environment. Hochbrueckner authored
landmark legislation to encourage recycling by creating markets for recycled
materials and funding research for innovative ways to use recycled materials.
In the wake of the Exxon Valdez incident, he worked to protect our
environment from future oil spills. With the Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee, Hochbrueckner helped to write the tough
oil spill prevention law. He also sponsored a bill that would require vessels
transporting oil or hazardous materials to employ more sophisticated
navigation systems. Hochbrueckner's commitment to
protecting the environment and our communities has had an impact nationally
as well as on Long Island.
Before being elected to
Congress, Hochbrueckner served for ten years as a
Member of the New York State Assembly. During his tenure with the State
Legislature as Chairman of the Real Property Taxation Committee, his major
accomplishments included providing substantial tax reductions to over 15,000
homeowners through use and improvement of the Real Property Tax Grievance
System, major improvements to the Real Property Tax Exemption for Veterans,
as well as to the Senior Citizen Property Tax Exemption Program.
After graduation from
high school, Hochbrueckner served in the United
States Navy for three years where he was trained as an Aviation Electronics
Technician, which became the basis for his 20+ year engineering career. After
being honorably discharged in 1959, he attended the State University of New
York at Stony Brook and Hofstra
University and California State
University at Northridge.
After 2-1/2 years of college, Hochbrueckner pursued
full time on-the-job engineering training. He worked his way from technician
to senior engineer within 5 years. As a senior engineer and later as a
research scientist, Hochbrueckner worked for
Grumman in New York and Litton and Teledyne
in California.
Hochbrueckner worked on a variety of avionics
equipments including the design and manufacture of one of the major
electronic units on the F-14 "Tomcat" aircraft.
George Hochbrueckner and his wife, the former Carol Ann Seifert
of Hicksville, are long-time Long Island
residents and have been happily married since 1961. They resided in southern California from
1961-68 during part of his engineering career. They have four grown children.
Hochbrueckner presently serves as a Member of the
Middle Country Library Foundation Board. He previously served for two years
as Chair. That Library is nationally recognized for developing and
promulgating model Library services and programs to Libraries across the U.S.
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