Originally sworn in on January 5, 2011, Richard Blumenthal is serving his second term as a United States Senator from the State of Connecticut.
With a father who fled Nazi Germany at age 18, and a mother who left Nebraska’s farmland to become a social worker, Richard Blumenthal was raised with a deep dedication to public service, a duty to give back by helping others, and a bedrock belief in hard work.
Those values carried him through his childhood and his education at Harvard College (Editorial Chairman The Harvard Crimson, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude), and Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. To a year working as assistant to Daniel Patrick Moynihan when he was Assistant to the President of the United States. And to enlisting in the United States Marine Corps Reserves in 1970. He was honorably discharged with the rank of Sergeant in 1976.
As Chair of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security, Senator Blumenthal is one of the most committed, longstanding consumer protection advocates in Congress. He is deeply dedicated to safeguarding consumers from companies’ negligence, protecting people from hazardous household items, and stopping scams and fraud. Senator Blumenthal fights for the interests of consumers and works tirelessly to hold companies accountable for the safety of their products.