Honorable Jay Rockefeller
United States Senator, West Virginia, Democrat
Senator Rockefeller was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. He served in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1966 to 1968, as West Virginia Secretary of State from 1968 to 1972, and as West Virginia Governor from 1976 to 1984. He chairs the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and also sits on the following committees: Finance, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Health Care; Veterans’ Affairs; the Select Committee on Intelligence; and the Joint Committee on Taxation. The following is from the March 14, 2012, Senate floor debate on S. 1813, the Moving Ahead for the 21st…
