Sheldon Whitehouse

State:Rhode Island
Current Office:U.S. Senator
Party:Democratic Party

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, defeating then-Sen. Lincoln Chafee. His seat is next up for election in 2012.

Whitehouse, born in New York City, moved to Rhode Island to work in the state attorney general's office in 1985. He served as executive counsel to Gov. Bruce Sundlun starting in 1991 and later named as Sundlun's policy director.

President Clinton named Whitehouse as the U.S. attorney for Rhode Island in 1994. He held that position for four years before being elected the state's attorney general in 1998.

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Committees

• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
• Senate Committee on the Budget
• United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control
• Senate Special Committee on Aging
• Senate Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
  • Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
  • Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging
• Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
  • Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights
  • Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism
  • Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law

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