While Brett Tolman did his instrumental work on the 2005 Patriot Act reauthorization, Orrin Hatch had what role in the US Senate?
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Brett Tolman Brett Tolman was the United States Attorney for the District of Utah from July 2006 to December 2009. Before becoming U.S. Attorney, Tolman worked as counsel in the Senate Judiciary Committee for committee chairs Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and then Arlen Specter (R-PA) during the 109th United States Congress. Tolman’s most noteworthy work in the Senate is his role in the passage of the 2005 Patriot Act reauthorization. He was instrumental in the revisions to the appointment process of interim U.S. Attorneys and is a major (if not well-known) figure in the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy.
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Orrin Hatch Orrin Grant Hatch (born March 22, 1934) is an American attorney, politician, and author who has been the president pro tempore of the United States Senate since January 2015.
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Saxby Chambliss Clarence Saxby Chambliss (born November 10, 1943) is an American politician who was a United States Senator from Georgia from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a U.S. Representative from 1995 to 2003.
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Thomas V. Hatch Thomas V. Hatch was a Republican politician from southern Utah. He served as chair of the Garfield County, Utah Board of Commissioners, state representative and state senator, retiring from the later post at the end of 2006.
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Roy Blunt Roy Dean Blunt (born January 10, 1950) is an American politician who currently serves as the junior United States senator from Missouri, having been in office since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act The Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act was introduced by the 101st Congress of the United States. Senator Orrin G. Hatch was the chairperson sponsor of the federal revitalization amendment for the Food and Drug Administration.
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Thomas Jipping Thomas L. Jipping is Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He joined Senator Hatch's legislative office staff in 2003 and was promoted to his Judiciary Committee staff in 2007. In 2010, he served as Deputy Chief Counsel and Deputy Staff Director of the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee, created to conduct the impeachment trial of U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous. Prior to his current post, Jipping was Senior Fellow in Legal Studies at Concerned Women for America and, from 1990-2002, Vice-President for Legal Policy and Director of the Center for Law & Democracy at the Free Congress Foundation, where he directed the Judicial Selection Monitoring Project.
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Michael Roberson Michael Roberson (born June 29, 1970) is an American attorney and politician. A Republican, he has served in the Nevada Senate since winning election in 2010.
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Climate Stewardship Acts The Climate Stewardship Acts are a series of three acts introduced to the United States Senate by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT), with a number of other co-sponsors. Their aim was to introduce a mandatory cap and trade system for greenhouse gases, as a response to the threat of anthropogenic climate change. All three acts failed to gain enough votes to pass through the senate.
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Warren Rudman Warren Bruce Rudman (May 18, 1930November 19, 2012) was an American attorney and Republican politician who served as United States Senator from New Hampshire between 1980 and 1993. He was known as a moderate centrist, to such an extent that President Clinton approached him in 1994 about replacing departing Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen in Clinton's cabinet, an offer that Rudman declined.
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Jon Huntsman Jr. Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. (born March 26, 1960) is an American politician, businessman, and diplomat who serves as the current United States ambassador to Russia. Huntsman was also the former governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009, and as United States Ambassador to Singapore from 1992 to 1993, and China from 2009 to 2011. He has served in the administrations of five U.S. Presidents and was a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. In January 2014, Huntsman was named Chairman of the Washington-based foreign policy think-tank the Atlantic Council. In March 2017 it was reported that he would be appointed as the next Ambassador to Russia. This nomination was submitted to the Senate on July 20, 2017 and confirmed on September 28, 2017.
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Sigal Mandelker Sigal P. Mandelker is an American lawyer and government official who currently serves as Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. She was confirmed by the United States Senate with a vote of 96-4 on June 21, 2017.
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Chuck Thomsen Charles William Thomsen (born January 20, 1957) is an American Republican politician from the US state of Oregon. He currently serves in the Oregon Senate, representing District 26, which includes all of Hood River County and parts of eastern Multnomah County and northeastern Clackamas County.
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Robert Craven Robert E. Craven, Sr. (born November 19, 1955) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives representing District 32 since January 1, 2013. He serves as Chairman of the House Municipal Government Committee and member of the House Judiciary Committee. Craven also serves on the R.I. Governor's "Justice Reinvestment Working Group," which advises on ways to improve Rhode Island's criminal justice system, with the overarching goals of protecting public safety, reducing recidivism, addressing racial disparities, promoting stronger, healthier communities, and reducing cost.
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Patriot Act, Title III, Subtitle A The USA PATRIOT Act was passed by the United States Congress in 2001 as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It has ten titles, with the third title ("Title III: International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001") written to prevent, detect, and prosecute international money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
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Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate or originally known as the Doorkeeper of the Senate from the First Congress until the Eighth Congress (April 7, 1789 – March 3, 1803) is the highest ranking Federal Law Enforcement Officer in the Senate of the United States. One of the chief roles of the Sergeant at Arms is to hold the gavel used at every session. The Sergeant at Arms can also compel the attendance of an absent Senator when ordered to do so by the Senate.
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Concord Coalition The Concord Coalition is a political advocacy group in the United States, formed in 1992. A bipartisan organization, it was founded by U.S. Senator Warren Rudman, former Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson, and U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas. The Concord Coalition's advocacy centers on ending deficit spending and promoting a balanced budget in the U.S. federal government. The group's mission statement is to educate "the public about the causes and consequences of federal budget deficits, the long-term challenges facing America's unsustainable entitlement programs, and how to build a sound foundation for economic growth."
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Michael Moynihan (author) Michael Moynihan is an American author and the nephew of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Senator (Democrat) from New York. He wrote "The Coming American Renaissance", a rebuttal of works by Lester Thurow and others, argued that America possessed a unique set of economic advantages that would propel it to global leadership in the 21st century. Moynihan cited technology leadership, in particular, as a driver of economic growth. He worked in the Clinton administration as an advisor to Secretaries of the Treasury, Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin from 1996 to 1999. Moynihan was in charge of Internet and electronic commerce policy and was involved with the effort to pass the Internet Tax Freedom Act. Moynihan founded the Internet website AlwaysonTV.
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United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, informally the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of the United States Senate, of the United States Congress. The Judiciary Committee, with 20 members, is in charge of conducting hearings prior to the Senate votes on confirmation of federal judges (including Supreme Court justices) nominated by the President, as well as presidential appointments in the Department of Justice. In recent years, this role has made the committee increasingly a point of contention, with numerous party-line votes and standoffs over which judges should be approved. The committee also has a broad jurisdiction over matters relating to federal criminal law, as well as human rights, immigration law, intellectual property rights, antitrust law, and Internet privacy. It is also Senate procedure that all proposed Constitutional Amendments pass through the Judiciary Committee.
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Jerry Moran Gerald W. Moran (born May 29, 1954) is the junior United States Senator from Kansas and a member of the Republican Party. He served as Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 113th U.S. Congress, during which he led successful Republican efforts in United States Senate elections, 2014, producing the first Republican Senate majority since 2006. Previously, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing 2=nd
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Nathan O. Hatch Nathan O. Hatch is president of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, having been officially installed on October 20, 2005. Before coming to Wake Forest Hatch was a professor and later dean and provost at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to his career in academic administration he was a historian who was a leading scholar on issues related to the history of religion in the United States.
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List of United States Senators from Kentucky This is a complete list of United States Senators from Kentucky. Its senators belong to Classes 2 and 3. Kentucky is currently represented in the U.S. Senate by Republicans Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell. Currently on his sixth term in office, McConnell is currently Kentucky's longest serving Senator and has also been the Republican Leader of the United States Senate since 2007.