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Sheldon (Sheldon) Whitehouse (D)
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Capitol: 202.224.2921 FAX: 202.228.6362 District: 401.453.5294
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Senator
Room 530 HSOB- Hart Senate Office Building 120 Constitution Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20510-3905
Residence: Newport, RI
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Elected: 2006 Next Election: 2024 | Spouse: Dr. Sandra Thornton DOB: 10/20/1955 |
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Chairman | Senate Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight | Co-Chair | Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control | Co-Chair | Ad Hoc Steering Committee on Telemedicine and Healthcare Informatics | Co-Chair | Senate Oceans Caucus | Chairman | Senate Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law | Co-Chair | Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change | FC Member | Senate Climate Change Clearinghouse | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife | Member | Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure | Member | Senate Committee on the Judiciary | Member | Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism | Member | Senate Committee on Budget | Member | Joint Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Health Care | FC Member | Friends of Portugal | FC Member | Senate ALS Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Heart and Stroke Coalition | FC Member | Senate Defend Social Security Caucus | Member | Senate Committee on Finance | FC Member | Congressional Boating Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Bicameral High-Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail Caucus | FC Member | Environmental Justice Caucus | FC Member | Senate Caucus on WMD Terrorism (Weapons of Mass Destruction) | Co-Chair | Congressional International Creativity and Theft-Prevention Caucus | FC Member | Northeast-Midwest Senate Coalition | FC Member | Senate Democratic Hispanic Task Force (HTF) | FC Member | Expand Social Security Caucus (Senate) | FC Member | Senate Afterschool Caucus | FC Member | Senate Veterans Jobs Caucus | FC Member | Senate Impact Aid Coalition | FC Member | Senate National Service Caucus | FC Member | Senate India Caucus | FC Member | Senate Small Brewers Caucus | FC Member | Congressional French Caucus | FC Member | Senate National Guard Caucus | FC Member | Senate Cultural Caucus | Co-Chair | International Conservation Caucus (ICC) | FC Member | Arthritis Caucus | FC Member | Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Caucus |
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BioSheldon Whitehouse has earned a reputation in the Senate as a fierce advocate for progressive values and a thoughtful legislator capable of reaching across the aisle to achieve bipartisan solutions.
Senator Whitehouse has been at the center of bipartisan efforts to pass laws overhauling federal education policy, rebuilding our nation's infrastructure, reforming the criminal and juvenile justice systems, protecting Americans from toxic chemicals in everyday products, and addressing ocean plastic waste.
Recognizing the devastating toll of addiction in Rhode Island and across the nation, Whitehouse authored the first significant bipartisan law to address the opioid crisis, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act.
Representing the Ocean State, Whitehouse plays a key role in crafting policies addressing climate change, environmental protection, and a price on carbon. He passed into law a dedicated fund to support ocean and coastal research and restoration and bipartisan legislation to confront the crisis of marine plastic and other waste polluting our oceans. He has worked to enact bipartisan measures to reduce carbon pollution and boost America's clean energy economy.
Whitehouse has stood as a staunch defender of Social Security and Medicare, and has made improving care and reducing costs in our health care system a hallmark of his career. To counteract the corrosive effects of special interests in our democracy, Whitehouse has championed efforts to root out dark money from our elections and make Congress and the courts accountable to the American people.
"While fighting in Washington against corporate interests and their influence on the political process" wrote the Providence Journal, "Senator Whitehouse has not forgotten the people back home."
A graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Sheldon served as Rhode Island's U.S. Attorney and state attorney general before being elected to the Senate, where he serves on the Finance Committee, the Judiciary Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, and the Budget Committee.
He and his wife Sandra, a marine biologist and environmental advocate, live in Newport. They have two grown children.
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