John Peter Spyros Sarbanes ( ; born May 22, 1962) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes Annapolis, the entirety of Howard county, and parts of Anne Arundel, and Carroll counties. Early life John Sarbanes is the eldest son of former U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes (who served as a U.S. representative from 1971 to 1977 and a senator from 1977 to 2007) and Christine Dunbar Sarbanes, a teacher. He was born in Baltimore, having Greek origin on his father's side and English on his mother's, and graduated from the Gilman School there in 1980. He received a B.A., cum laude, from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1984, after completing a 194-page long senior thesis titled "The American Intelligence Community Abroad: Potential for a Breakdown Case Study, Greece, 1967". Sarbanes then received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was co-chair of the Law School Democrats, in 1988. After college, Sarbanes served for seven years with the Maryland State Department of Education, working on Maryland’s public school system. He later clerked with Baltimore Judge J. Frederick Motz on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Sarbanes spent his professional legal career at the law firm of Venable LLP in Baltimore from 1989 to 2006, where he was chair of health care practice from 2000 to 2006 and a member of the hiring committee from 1992 to 1996. U.S. House of Representatives Committee assignments Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy Subcommittee on Health Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations Caucus memberships Armenian Caucus Congressional Public Service Caucus (Co-Chair) House Congressional Hellenic Caucus United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus Joint Congressional Human Rights Caucus Pakistan Caucus Congressional Arts Caucus Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus Environmental education Sarbanes has introduced H.R. 2054, the No Child Left Inside Act (NCLI), which seeks to both improve education in the nation's public schools and protect the environment by "creating a new environmental education grant program, providing teacher training for environmental education, and including environmental education as an authorized activity under the Fund for the Improvement of Education." NCLI also requires states that participate in the environmental education grant programs to develop a plan to ensure that high school graduates are