WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Sam Brownback today congratulated Leon Trammell, a Kansas businessman, who this week was notified that the President intends to appoint him to serve on the President's Export Council.

"I congratulate Leon Trammell for his upcoming appointment to the President's Export Council," said Brownback. "I am certain Mr. Trammell will serve the Nation well in his new role and will make Kansas proud. Mr. Trammell over the years has proven he is a great businessman and a true entrepreneur."

Trammell owns several businesses and in 1967 founded Tramco, a Wichita-based business which employs over 120 people. Trammell also is a U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board Member and is on the Kansas World Trade Center Advisory Committee. The President's Export Council is a venue through which the business community advises the Administration on U.S. trade policy. The PEC is made up of 48 members, 28 of whom come from the private-sector.

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