Honorable Richard Blumenthal
United States Senator, Connecticut, Democrat
Senator Blumenthal was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987, in the Connecticut Senate from 1987 to 1991, and as Connecticut Attorney General from 1991 to 2011. He sits on the following committees: Armed Services; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Judiciary; Veterans’ Affairs, where he is the Ranking Minority Member; and the Special Committee on Aging. The following is from the June 2, 2015, Senate floor debate on H.R. 2048, the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015. My colleague from Vermont, who shares with me a background as a prosecutor,…
