Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Party: Democrat
State: Rhode Island
What you need to know: On the Council for a Livable World scorecard, he has scored 95% over his first four years in office.
Democrat - Incumbent
Endorsed for U.S. Senate by Council for a Livable World
One of the brighter lights elected to the Senate five years ago is Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D) of Rhode Island.
During his first term as Senator, Whitehouse hasn’t shied away from promoting progressive issues and has scored a perfect 100% on Council for a Livable World’s voting scorecard. Now Senator Whitehouse is facing his first re-election challenge, and his leadership, intelligence and votes deserve your support.
A former Rhode Island Attorney General and U.S. Attorney, Whitehouse made an immediate impact upon entering the Senate.
While Whitehouse is favored in the 2012 election, he will have to work hard in an uncertain political environment to secure his re-election. He is being challenged by a wealthy Republican Tea Party activist.
Armed with his legal expertise he has been a leader in the fight in Congress to ban torture interrogations. He has also strongly criticized the Supreme Court’s evisceration of campaign finance limits with the decision in the Citizens United case.
Whitehouse was an active supporter of the New START nuclear reductions treaty and advocates an increase in U.S.-Russian cooperation.
He signed a letter circulated by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) urging President Obama “to begin a sizable and sustained drawdown of troops in Afghanistan” and supports the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of this year.
On the Council for a Livable World scorecard, he has scored 95% over his first four years in office.
A graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Sen. Whitehouse served as a policy advisor and counsel to the Governor of Rhode Island and as the state’s Director of Business Regulation before being nominated by President Bill Clinton to be Rhode Island's United States Attorney in 1994. He was elected State Attorney General in 1998, a position in which he served from 1999-2003.
He serves on the Budget Committee, the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, the Judiciary Committee, the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the Special Committee on Aging. He chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism.
While Whitehouse is favored in the 2012 election, he will have to work hard in an uncertain political environment to secure his re-election. He is being challenged by a wealthy Republican Tea Party activist.
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