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Capitol: 202.224.5641
FAX: 202.224.0044
District: 507.288.2003
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Senator
Room 720 HSOB- Hart Senate Office Building 120 Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20510-2310
Residence: Minneapolis, MN
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| Elected: 2018 Next Election: 2026 | | Spouse: Archie Smith DOB: 3/4/1958 |
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| Chairman | Senate Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development | | Co-Chair | Senate Rural Health Caucus | | Chairman | Senate Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy | | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security | | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety | | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Economic Policy | | Member | Joint Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe | | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management and Trade | | FC Member | Senate Recreational Vehicle (RV) Caucus | | Member | Senate Committee on Indian Affairs | | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families | | Member | Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment | | Member | Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry | | Member | Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions | | FC Member | Senate Broadband Caucus | | Co-Chair | Electrification Caucus | | Member | Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs | | FC Member | Environmental Justice Caucus | | FC Member | Great Lakes Task Force (Senate) | | FC Member | Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues (Senate) | | FC Member | Expand Social Security Caucus (Senate) | | FC Member | Senate Afterschool Caucus | | FC Member | Senate Impact Aid Coalition | | FC Member | Paper and Packaging Caucus | | FC Member | Congressional Coalition on Adoption | | FC Member | Senate Cultural Caucus | | FC Member | Great Lakes Task Force (Joint) | | FC Member | Congressional Rare Disease Caucus | | FC Member | Congressional TRIO Caucus | | FC Member | Congressional Fire Services Caucus |
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BioSince coming to the Senate since 2018, she has been a fierce advocate for the people and communities across the state. She has traveled the state, listened to Minnesotans and turned what she's heard into laws to help the American people.
With more than 50 bills and provisions signed into law in just over three years, her successful bipartisan record has benefited working families, farmers, veterans, businesses, and Tribal communities. Her work has helped make health care more affordable and accessible, expanded much-needed broadband services across the state, and boosted the efforts of schools and teachers to prepare students for in-demand careers.
Since early 2020, with the nation gripped by an unprecedented pandemic, she enacted several bipartisan measures that have helped hard-hit families, businesses, communities, and health care workers navigate the crisis and recover from the health and economic fallout.
With the climate crisis upon us, she has pushed hard to transition the nation to a clean energy future and has become a key national player in efforts to do so.
Senator Smith serves on four Senate committees- Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; and Indian Affairs. In 2021, she was named Chair of two Senate subcommittees.
Prior to coming to the Senate, she served as Minnesota's Lieutenant Governor under Governor Mark Dayton, after previously serving as Dayton's Chief of Staff. She also served as Chief of Staff to Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak.
Senator Smith was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a graduate of Stanford University and earned her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. In the 1980s, she moved to Minnesota to raise a family with her husband, Archie.
Prior to her public service, she worked at General Mills, started her own business, and worked as a vice president at Planned Parenthood. In the 1990s, she got involved in state and local politics. When Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash weeks before the 2002 election, Smith managed former Vice President Walter Mondale's abbreviated campaign for the seat.
She and Archie have two sons, Sam, who is married to Julia, and Mason, who is married to Emily. The couple has two grandchildren.
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