Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D)

Current Office: Senator
First Elected: 11/07/2006
Next Election: 2012
Party: Democratic

General

Gender: Male
Family: Wife: Sandra Thornton; 2 Children: Molly, Alexander
Birth date: 10/20/1955
Birthplace: New York, NY
Home City: Newport RI
Religion: Episcopalian

Profession

United States Attorney, Rhode Island, 1994-1998 Director, Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation, 1992-1994 Director, Office of the Governor of Rhode Island, 1992 Legal Counsel to the Governor of Rhode Island, 1991 Assistant to the Attorney General of Rhode Island, 1984-1990 Director of Business Regulation, State of Rhode Island

Education

JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 1982 BA, Architecture, Yale University, 1978

Committees

Budget
Environment and Public Works
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
Judiciary
Special Committee on Aging
Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
Subcommittee on Children's Health and Environmental Responsibility
Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism
Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
Subcommittee on Oversight
Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging
Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law
Subcommittee on The Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights
Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife

Recent Votes

HR 2072 Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2012
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 2343 Prohibits Increase in Interest Rates for Student Loans
Stage: Cloture Vote
Vote: Yea

S 1925 Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 1789 United States Postal Service Amendments
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

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