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Sen. Richard Blumenthal
- Connecticut
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TRACK OFFICIAL
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Party
Democratic
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Current Office
U.S. Senate
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First Elected
11/2/2010
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Next Election
2016
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Sponsored Bills
Congress 113
6
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CoSponsored Bills
Congress 113
98
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Missed Vote %
0.30%
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Votes with Party
98.63%
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OFFICE ADDRESS
30 Lewis Street Suite 101 Hartford, CT
Ph: 860-258-6940
Fx: 860-258-6958
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Richard Blumenthal (born February 13, 1946) is the senior United States Senator from Connecticut and a member of the Democratic Party. Previously, he served as Attorney General of Connecticut.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Blumenthal is a graduate of Harvard College, where he was editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson. He studied for a year at Cambridge University in England before attending Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. While at Yale, he was a classmate of future President Bill Clinton and future Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. From 1970 to 1976 Blumenthal served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, where he earned the rank of serge...
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Richard Blumenthal (born February 13, 1946) is the senior United States Senator from Connecticut and a member of the Democratic Party. Previously, he served as Attorney General of Connecticut.
Richard Blumenthal
has co-sponsored bill S2258
A bill to provide for an increase, effective December 1, 2014, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs....
Richard Blumenthal
has co-sponsored bill S2250
A bill to extend the Travel Promotion Act of 2009, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation....
Richard Blumenthal
has co-sponsored bill S2240
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to encourage Medicare beneficiaries to voluntarily adopt advance directives guiding the medical care they receive.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance....
Richard Blumenthal
has co-sponsored bill S2224
A bill to enhance the accuracy of credit reporting and provide greater rights to consumers who dispute errors in their credit reports, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs....
Richard Blumenthal
has co-sponsored bill S2217
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to enhance the participation of mental health professionals in boards for the correction of military records and boards for the review of the discharge or dismissal of members of the Armed Forces.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services....
Richard Blumenthal
has co-sponsored bill S2164
A bill to prevent harassment at institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions....
Richard Blumenthal
has sponsored bill
S2150
A bill to advance the public health by encouraging independent innovators to pursue drug repurposing research and develop new treatments and cures by providing appropriate intellectual property protections for those innovations, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary....
Richard Blumenthal
has co-sponsored bill S2133
A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other statutes to clarify appropriate liability standards for Federal antidiscrimination claims.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions....
Richard Blumenthal
has co-sponsored bill S2047
A bill to prohibit the marketing of electronic cigarettes to children, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation....
Richard Blumenthal
has co-sponsored bill S2032
Smartphone Theft Prevention Act
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation....
Richard Blumenthal
has sponsored bill
S1995
A bill to protect consumers by mitigating the vulnerability of personally identifiable information to theft through a security breach, providing notice and remedies to consumers in the wake of such a breach, holding companies accountable for preventable breaches, facilitating the sharing of post-breach technical information between companies, and enhancing criminal and civil penalties and other protections against the unauthorized collection or use of personally identifiable information.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary....
Richard Blumenthal
has sponsored bill
S1761
A bill to permanently extend the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 and establish a private right of action to enforce compliance with such Act.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs....
Richard Blumenthal
has sponsored bill
S1721
A bill to decrease the frequency of sports blackouts, to require the application of the antitrust laws to Major League Baseball, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary....
Richard Blumenthal
has sponsored bill
S1714
A bill to impose sanctions with respect to Syria, to expand existing sanctions with respect to Syria, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs....
Richard Blumenthal
has co-sponsored bill S1706
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to issue prospective guidance clarifying the employment status of individuals for purposes of employment taxes and to prevent retroactive assessments with respect to such clarifications.
Current Status
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance....
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