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 has been a long time leader in the fight to protect people’s right to privacy against intrusions by large corporations, cyber criminals, and governments. Senator Blumenthal has challenged Big Tech for its rampant commercial surveillance, mishandling, and misuse of our private information. He has vigorously fought for a national consumer privacy law that would set limits on how companies use our data and impose obligations on how they secure that sensitive information. Senator Blumenthal has also pushed to modernize our laws and defenses to stop, deter, and punish cyber criminals and foreign governments that hack and meddle to defraud consumers, threaten our national security, and undermine our democracy.