 The George Brown Act of 1961 was one of the first comprehensive public employee labor relations laws in the nation.Other legislative proposals included some of the first bills to ban lead in gasoline, ban the use of the pesticide DDT, and even a whimsical proposal to ban the internal combustion engine.In 1962, Brown won the election and became a member of the United States House of Representatives, where he served from 1963 to 1970.