MAIN STREET MEMBERS IN ACTION
Lawmakers serve the public interest
when they show independent-mindedness
Sen. Ben Sasse and Rep. Don Bacon deserve credit for their recent displays of independent-mindedness. They have stood up, in the face of partisan criticism, for responsible behavior in Washington. Their actions are in line with a Nebraska tradition of similar independent judgment by Bob Kerrey and Chuck Hagel when they
served in the Senate.
The Republican Main Street Partnership encompasses a broad alliance of conservative, governing Republicans, including more than 70 sitting members in Congress. We are dedicated to working to enact commonsense legislation that gets things done for the American people. Our members run and win in the most highly contested swing districts in the country.
WHO WE ARE
Rhetoric is easy. It’s governing that’s hard.
Main Street members share a commitment to government that works to better American communities. We know how to reach across the aisle to build initiatives that not only work but endure. We have a long track record of crafting and passing effective legislation.
The future of the Republican party is changing exactly the way Main Street America is. It’s more diverse. It’s populated by people who maintain their fierce independence but who understand that our schools, our environment, and the health of our families demand solutions that reach across ideological boundaries. It’s fiscally responsible and socially inclusive. And it is represented today by the Republican Main Street Partnership.
Leadership
Sarah Chamberlain
President & Chief Executive Officer
Sarah Chamberlain's passion for pragmatic politics and women's engagement drives her to wear many hats. As President and CEO of the Republican Main Street Partnership, Sarah runs an organization that supports the governing wing of the Republican Party in Congress. She is the only woman in the country who’s the CEO of a major Republican organization. Additionally, as the President and Founder of the Women2Women National Conversation Tour, Sarah has become one of the most prominent national voices calling for women to raise their voices on issues that matter most to them while educating them on how decisions being made for the country are affecting their own lives.
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Born in upstate New York, she received her undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Delaware and received her master’s degree from the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University. From there, she came to Washington, D.C. to work for Republican Main Street Partnership and its founder Rep. Amory Houghton Jr., a former CEO of the Corning Glass Company and six-term member of Congress. Sarah has since built the Republican Main Street Partnership from the fledgling organization founded in 1997 into a thriving network of 88 Members of Congress who share Sarah’s commitment to conservative, solution-oriented governing (all while losing her husband to cancer in 2011 and raising her daughter as a single mother). RMSP is the 2nd largest conservative alliance in the U.S. House GOP majority caucus, has an 85% winning record, spends 94 cents of every dollar on candidates and opens its books to its contributors at the end of each year.
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Sarah serves on the Board of Directors of the Women Campaign School at Yale University, is a National Capital Trustee of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and sits on the Wall Street Journal CEO Council. Her written work has been featured in the Washington Post, The Hill, U.S. News & World Report, she is a contributor for Forbes and has a regular slot on Bloomberg on Thursdays at 5:30pm. Sarah was chosen by CQ Roll Call as a 2017 Rising Star and was featured as one of Elle Magazine’s 10 Women in Washington in 2017.
IN MEMORIUM
hON. aMORY hOUGHTON
Chairman Emeritus and Founder
Former Congressman Amo Houghton (R-New York) was first elected to Congress in 1986. He was the sixth-ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee when he retired in 2005, having chaired its Oversight Subcommittee, and serving on its Trade Subcommittee. He also served on the International Relations Committee and was vice chairman of its Subcommittee on Africa. Amo knew that American progress can only be made when we shift politics back to the civility of the center. A resolute beacon of bipartisanship, Amo’s unyielding commitment to country over party manifested into the Republican Main Street Partnership almost 23 years ago.
Under Amo, the Main Street entities collectively raised and spent more than $100 million to educate, elect and defend governing Republicans. Through the John Quincy Adams Society, Amo hosted and honored world leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan, Alan Greenspan, and Katharine Graham; and later, under Republican Main Street Partnership, the organization’s highest award for Public Service was named in his honor.
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Houghton built a reputation as a results-oriented congressman who espoused moderate social programs and conservative fiscal policy. He was a founder of 1997’s historic Bipartisan Congressional Retreat, which focused on the role of civility in political life. The only former CEO of a Fortune 500 firm ever to serve in the House, Houghton graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Business School. After serving in the Marine Corps, he joined Corning Glass Works (now Corning, Incorporated) as an accountant in 1951, rising to the level of chairman and CEO. He was also a member of the boards of such organizations as IBM, Procter & Gamble, B.F. Goodrich, and the predecessor bank of Citigroup.
Amo passed away March 4, 2020 at the age of 93 in his hometown of Corning, New York.