Richard Blumenthal | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Richard Blumenthal


00:02:26 1 Early life and education
00:03:53 2 Military service
00:04:58 3 Early political career
00:06:54 4 Attorney General career
00:07:24 4.1 Pequot land annexation bid
00:08:21 4.2 Interstate air pollution
00:09:30 4.3 Big Tobacco
00:10:41 4.4 Microsoft lawsuit
00:12:24 4.5 Stanley Works
00:14:11 4.6 Charter schools lawsuit
00:15:16 4.7 Regional transmission organization
00:16:23 4.8 Gina Kolb lawsuit
00:17:30 4.9 Big East and ACC
00:19:21 4.10 Interstate 84
00:20:22 4.11 Lyme disease guidelines investigation
00:22:03 4.12 Internet pornography, prostitution, and sexual predators
00:22:14 4.12.1 MySpace/Facebook
00:24:23 4.12.2 Craigslist
00:27:05 4.13 Terrorist surveillance program
00:27:44 4.14 Countrywide Financial
00:30:13 4.15 Global warming
00:31:27 4.16 Trump emoluments lawsuit
00:31:51 5 Prospect of gubernatorial candidacy
00:32:36 6 U.S. Senate
00:32:40 6.1 2010 election
00:35:35 6.2 2016 election
00:36:25 6.3 Tenure
00:37:11 6.4 Committee assignments
00:38:26 6.5 Caucus memberships
00:38:39 7 Political positions
00:38:49 7.1 Gun law
00:40:23 7.2 Marijuana
00:40:39 7.3 Reproductive rights
00:41:09 8 Potential 2020 presidential campaign
00:41:54 9 Personal life
00:42:35 10 Electoral history
00:42:54 11 See also



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Richard Blumenthal (; born February 13, 1946) is an American attorney and politician who has served as a United States Senator from Connecticut since 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.  He has been the state's senior senator since 2013 and is ranked as the second wealthiest member of the Senate. Previously, he served as Attorney General of Connecticut from 1991 to 2011. 
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Blumenthal attended Riverdale Country School, a private school in the Bronx. Blumenthal is a graduate of Harvard College, where he was editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson. He studied for a year at Trinity College, Cambridge, 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 Clinton. From 1970 to 1976, Blumenthal served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, where he attained the rank of sergeant.
After college, Blumenthal served as administrative assistant and law clerk for several Washington, D.C. figures. From 1977 to 1981, he was United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. In the early 1980s he worked in private law practice, including serving as volunteer counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987, when he was elected to the Connecticut Senate. He was elected Attorney General of Connecticut in 1990, and served for twenty years. During this period he was frequently speculated as a contender for Governor of Connecticut, but he never pursued the office.
Blumenthal announced his 2010 run for U.S. Senate after incumbent Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd announced his retirement. He faced professional wrestling magnate Linda McMahon in the 2010 election, winning by a 12-point margin with 55 percent of the vote. On January 5, 2011, he was sworn in and took seats on the Senate Armed Services; Judiciary; Aging; and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees. He became Connecticut's senior senator after the retirement of Joe Lieberman in 2013. He won re-election in 2016 with 63.2% of the vote, becoming the first person to achieve more than one million votes in a statewide election in Connecticut.