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.
Senator Blumenthal believes the United States is proudly a nation of immigrants, and that immigrants have made—and will continue to make—our country the greatest nation in the world. He has fought to bring comprehensive reform to our immigration laws, including an expanded and reformed visa and green card system, measures that crack down on immigration abuse and fraud, and an earned path to citizenship. As one of the Senate’s strongest supporters of those seeking refuge and asylum, Senator Blumenthal has consistently fought to protect and expand programs that make the United States a beacon of hope across the world.