Angus King
Angus King | |
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United States Senator from Maine | |
Assumed office January 3, 2013 Serving with Susan Collins | |
Preceded by | Olympia Snowe |
72nd Governor of Maine | |
In office January 5, 1995 – January 8, 2003 | |
Preceded by | John R. McKernan Jr. |
Succeeded by | John Baldacci |
Personal details | |
Born | Angus Stanley King Jr. March 31, 1944 Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic (before 1993) Independent (1993–present) |
Other political affiliations | Senate Democratic Caucus (2013–present) |
Spouses | Edith Hazard (div. 1982)Mary Herman (m. 1984) |
Children | 5 |
Education | Dartmouth College (BA) University of Virginia (JD) |
Signature | |
Website | Senate website |
Angus Stanley King Jr. (born March 31, 1944) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Maine since 2013.[1] A political independent, he served as the 72nd governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003.
Born and raised in
King won Maine's
Early life, education, and early career
King was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the son of Ellen Archer (née Ticer) and Angus Stanley King, a lawyer.[1][3] His father was a U.S. magistrate for the Eastern District of Virginia.[4]
King graduated from
Soon after graduating from law school, King entered private law practice in Brunswick, Maine. He was a staff attorney for Pine Tree Legal Assistance in Skowhegan.
In 1972, he served as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics. King served as a legislative assistant to Democratic U.S. Senator William Hathaway in the 1970s. He was also well-known statewide as a host on public television.[7]
In 1973, when he was 29, King was diagnosed with an aggressive form of malignant melanoma. King has said he believes he survived cancer only because he had health insurance, and has highlighted this experience when explaining his support for the Affordable Care Act.[8][9]
In 1975, King returned to Maine to practice with Smith, Loyd and King in Brunswick. In 1983 he was appointed vice president of Swift River/Hafslund Company, which developed alternative energy (hydroelectric and biomass) projects in New England.
In 1989, King founded Northeast Energy Management, Inc., a company that developed and operated electrical energy conservation projects. In 1994 he sold the company. As of 2012 King's investments were valued at between $4.8 million and $22.5 million.[10]
Governor of Maine (1995–2003)
In May 1993, King announced he would run for
The general election was a highly competitive four-way race between King, Collins, Brennan, and
King narrowly won the November 8 election with 35% of the vote to Brennan's 34%, a margin of 7,878 votes. Collins received 23% of the vote and Carter 6%. King won eight counties, Collins five and Brennan three.[16] King's election as an independent was preceded by fellow independent James B. Longley, elected to the same office 20 years earlier.
During his tenure, King was the only U.S. governor unaffiliated with a political party. He was also one of only two governors nationwide not affiliated with either of the two major parties, the other being
King had an
In 2002, King launched the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) to provide laptops for every public middle-school student in the state, the first initiative of its kind in the nation.[20] It met with considerable resistance due to its cost but was enacted by the Maine Legislature. On September 5, 2002, the state began the program with a four-year $37.2-million contract with Apple Inc. to equip all 7th- and 8th-grade students and teachers in the state with laptops.[21][22]
Hiatus from politics (2003–2012)
The day after he left office in 2003, King, his wife, Mary Herman, and their two children, who were 12 and 9 at the time, embarked on a road trip in a 40 feet (12 m) motor home to see America. Over the next six months, the family traveled 15,000 miles (24,000 km) and visited 33 states before returning home in June 2003.[23]
During his post-gubernatorial residency in Maine, he lectured at Bowdoin College in Brunswick and Bates College in Lewiston. He was appointed a visiting lecturer at Bowdoin in 2004 and an endowed lecturer at Bates in 2009, teaching courses in American politics and political leadership at both institutions.[24][25]
In 2007 King and Rob Gardiner, formerly of the
U.S. Senate (2013–present)
Elections
2012
On March 5, 2012, King announced that he was running for the
King's Senate campaign came under scrutiny for posting a heavily edited newspaper profile of him on its website.[33]
On November 6, 2012, King won the Senate race with 53%[34] of the vote, beating Democrat Cynthia Dill and Republican Charlie Summers.[35][36] The following week, King announced that he would caucus with Senate Democrats, explaining not only that it made more sense to affiliate with the party that had a clear majority, but that he would have been largely excluded from the committee process had he not caucused with a party.[37][38] King said he had not ruled out caucusing with the Republicans if they took control of the Senate in 2014 United States Senate elections,[39] but when Republicans did win the majority that year, he remained in the Democratic caucus.[40] King remained in the Democratic caucus after the 2016, 2018, and the 2020 elections, the first two of which also resulted in Republican Senate majorities and the last of which produced a 50–50 tie.
2018
On November 6, 2018, King was reelected, defeating Republican state Senator Eric Brakey and Democrat Zak Ringelstein.[41]
Tenure
- 113th Congress (2013–2015)
King supported reform of the Senate
King opposed attempts by the U.S. House to cut $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over ten years, fearing that it "would affect people in a serious way" and drive more people to soup kitchens and food banks. He supported the more modest Senate efforts to save $4 billion over the same period by closing loopholes.[44]
In 2014 King was chosen for the annual tradition of reading George Washington's Farewell Address to the Senate.[45]
King endorsed his colleague
After Republicans gained the Senate majority in the
- 116th Congress (2019–2021)
In 2020, President Donald Trump said King was "worse than any Democrat" after King had a "testy" exchange with Vice President Mike Pence in a phone call in which King had criticized the executive branch's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. King stated he had "never been so mad about a phone call in my entire life," after the phone call with Pence. He also called the President and Vice President's response to the pandemic "a dereliction of duty."[52]
- 117th Congress (2021–2023)
King was participating in the certification of the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when Trump supporters attacked the United States Capitol. When they breached the Capitol, King and other senators were moved to a safe location.[53] He called the event a "violent insurrection" and "unspeakably sad", and blamed Trump.[54] In the wake of the attack, King announced that he supported invoking the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution to remove Trump from office.[55]
Committee assignments
Current
- Committee on Armed Services
- Subcommittee on Airland (2017–present)
- Subcommittee on Personnel (2013–2017)
- Subcommittee on Seapower
- Subcommittee on Strategic Forces (2013–2017; 2019–present) (Chair, 2021–present)
- Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (2015–present)
- Subcommittee on Energy
- Subcommittee on National Parks (Chair, 2021–present)
- Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining (2021–present)
- Subcommittee on Water and Power (2015–2021)
- Select Committee on Intelligence
Previous
- Committee on the Budget (2013–2019)
Caucus memberships
- Afterschool Caucuses[56]
- Congressional Coalition on Adoption[57]
Legislation sponsored
The following is an incomplete list of legislation that King has sponsored:
- Affordable College Textbook Act (S. 1864; 115th Congress)
- In April 2023, it was revealed that Justice Clarence Thomas had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of travel and free gifts from a Republican donor. King and Senator Lisa Murkowski introduced a bipartisan bill intended to force the Supreme Court to establish an ethics code that would require the court to appoint an official to examine public complaints and potential conflicts.[58]
Political positions
King has been described as a moderate Independent.[59] He has called himself "neither a Democrat nor a Republican, but an American".[60] The nonpartisan National Journal gave him a 2013 composite ideology score of 59% liberal and 41% conservative.[61] His Crowdpac score is −4.3 (10 is the most conservative, −10 the most liberal), based on a data aggregation of his campaign contributions, votes, and speeches.[62] In a study published by The Washington Post called "Party Unity scores," King voted with the Democratic Party 43% of the time.[63] He has also received higher approval ratings from liberal interest groups than conservative ones. King has been rated 89% by the average liberal interest group; the American Conservative Union gave him a 7% lifetime conservative rating in 2020.[64][65] GovTrack ranks King among the more moderate members of the Senate, near the Senate's ideological center.[66] In 2014, King endorsed his Republican colleague from Maine, Susan Collins.[67] According to FiveThirtyEight, which tracks Congressional votes, King had voted in line with President Trump's position on legislation about 38% of the time as of January 2021.[68]
Agriculture
In August 2018, King was one of 31 senators to vote against the Protect Interstate Commerce Act of 2018, a proposed amendment to the
Economic policy
King has called for the continuation of a tariff on imported athletic footwear, citing the potential loss of jobs at New Balance's Skowhegan and Madison factories in Maine.[70] Also while governor, King vetoed a bill that would have raised Maine's minimum wage by 25 cents per hour.[71]
In 2017, King opposed the
In March 2018, King and fellow Maine senator Susan Collins introduced the Northern Border Regional Commission Reauthorization Act, a bill that would bolster the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) and was included in the
On April 15, 2020, the Trump administration invited King to join a bipartisan task force on the reopening of the economy amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[75]
King is supportive of U.S. manufacturers like
Minimum wage
On March 5, 2021, King voted against Bernie Sanders's amendment to include a $15/hour minimum wage in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.[78]
Trade
In February 2019, during ongoing trade disputes between the United States and China, King was one of ten senators to sign a bipartisan letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Energy Secretary Rick Perry asserting that the American government "should consider a ban on the use of Huawei inverters in the United States and work with state and local regulators to raise awareness and mitigate potential threats" and urging them "to work with all federal, state and local regulators, as well as the hundreds of independent power producers and electricity distributors nationwide to ensure our systems are protected."[79]
Environment and energy
King supports action to
King opposes
King has expressed opposition to the creation of a Maine Woods National Park. His 2012 campaign website said that local control is the best way to conserve land,[42] but in 2014 King said he was keeping an open mind about the idea.[88]
King initially expressed "serious reservations" about proposals to establish the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument,[89] but expressed support for Obama's creation of the monument in 2016, saying that the administration had made commitments that convinced him that "the benefits of the designation will far outweigh any detriment"; that the monument would not hurt Maine's pulp and paper industry; and that the monument would help diversify the local economy.[90]
King opposes efforts in Maine to ban the baiting and trapping of bears, including an effort to
In 2017 King and Senator Jim Risch introduced the Securing Energy Infrastructure Act. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved the bill in 2018. The bill creates a pilot program for the federal government to study analog, nondigital, and physical systems that can be incorporated into the power grid to mitigate the potential effects of a cyberattack. The idea for the bill came after a 2015 cyberattack in Ukraine took down a large portion of the country's energy grid.[92] In April 2019 King was one of four senators caucusing with the Democrats who voted with Republicans to confirm David Bernhardt, an oil executive, as Secretary of the Interior Department.[93]
In April 2019 King was one of 12 senators to sign a bipartisan letter to top senators on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development advocating that the Energy Department be granted maximum funding for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), arguing that American job growth could be stimulated by investment in capturing carbon emissions and expressing disagreement with President Trump's 2020 budget request to combine the two federal programs that do carbon capture research.[94]
In July 2019 King called climate change "one of the most serious threats to" the United States, saying that two thirds of Arctic ice has disappeared over the past 30 years. A release from King's office stated that he had asserted the vital need for the U.S. to return to the aspirations of the Paris Climate Accord.[95]
Foreign relations and national security
King has voted to arm
King favors the normalization of U.S.–Cuba relations. He opposes the U.S. embargo against Cuba, calling it an "antiquated" relic of the Cold War; in 2015 King introduced legislation to lift the embargo.[97][98]
As a member of the
In May 2018 King and fellow Maine senator Susan Collins introduced the PRINT Act, a bill that would halt collections of countervailing duties and anti-dumping duties on Canadian newsprint and require the U.S. Department of Commerce to conduct a study of economic health of printing and publishing industries. Proponents of the bill argued it would offer a lifeline to the publishing industry amid newsprint price increases. Critics accused it of setting "a dangerous precedent for future investigations into allegations of unfair trade practices."[101]
In August 2018 King and 16 other lawmakers urged the Trump administration to impose sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act against Chinese officials responsible for
In November 2018 King joined Senators
In late 2018 King voted to withdraw U.S. military aid for
In December 2018, after President Trump announced the
In October 2019, King was one of six senators to sign a bipartisan letter to Trump calling on him to "urge Turkey to end their offensive [in Syria] and find a way to a peaceful resolution while supporting our Kurdish partners to ensure regional stability" and arguing that to leave Syria without installing protections for American allies would endanger both them and the U.S.[107]
King rejected calls for a ceasefire in the
Iran
In 2015 King supported the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an international agreement with Iran. In voting against a "resolution of disapproval" in opposition to the agreement, King stated, "The current alternatives, if this agreement is rejected, are either unrealistic or downright dangerous."[109]
In May 2019 King said he believed U.S. intel on Iran was accurate but that he wanted to know which country was reacting to the actions of the other, adding that he was "gravely concerned because of the possibility of miscalculation, misunderstanding, misreading of some event and all of the sudden you're on the ladder of escalation that could be dangerous for this country and for the Middle East."[110]
After President Trump halted retaliatory air strikes against Iran after Iran downed an American surveillance drone in June 2019, King said he agreed with the decision not to carry out the strikes but expressed concern about Trump's potentially limited options after steps taken by National Security Advisor
Gun laws
King supports expanding background checks to most firearms transactions, with exceptions for transfers between family members, calling such a position "the single most effective step" that can be taken to keep guns out of the wrong hands. He supports limiting the size of magazines to 10 rounds, and to make purchasing a gun for someone not legally allowed to have one a federal crime. He does not support a ban on assault weapons, believing it will not work and that such a ban is not based on the functionality of the weapons, which are not relevantly different from the many hunting rifles owned by Maine residents. He noted that the vast majority of gun crimes are committed with handguns, not rifles.[112]
King voted for the Manchin–Toomey amendment to expand background checks for gun purchases.[113]
In 2018 King was a cosponsor of the NICS Denial Notification Act,
In August 2019, following two mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, King cosponsored the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act, a bill authorizing states to use grants to develop red flag laws which would allow family members to petition courts for an order that would temporarily prevent someone from purchasing a gun and an order for law enforcement to take a firearm away.[116]
In October 2023, King joined fellow Maine Senator Susan Collins in opposing calls for a National Assault Weapons Ban.[citation needed]
Healthcare
King supports the
In 2015, as part of the Obama administration's fiscal year 2016 budget, the
In January 2017 King voted against the Republican Senate budget plan to accelerate repeal of the ACA and block repeal legislation from being filibustered; the measure passed on a largely party line 51–48 vote.
King is a supporter of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) program.[124]
King favors
In February 2017 King and 30 other senators signed a letter to Kaléo Pharmaceuticals in response to an increase of the opioid-overdose-reversing device Evzio's price from $690 in 2014 to $4,500. They requested the detailed price structure for Evzio, the number of devices Kaléo Pharmaceuticals set aside for donation, and the totality of federal reimbursements Evzio received in the previous year.[126]
King criticized Trump's 2017 budget proposal for its cuts to medical research.[127] In 2018 he voted with all Republicans except Rand Paul and six Democrats to confirm Alex Azar, Trump's nominee for Health Secretary.[128][129]
In June 2018 King and fellow Maine Senator Susan Collins released a statement endorsing a proposal by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai intended to boost funding for the Rural Health Care Program of the Universal Service Fund, writing that "with demand for RHC funding continuing to rise, any further inaction would risk leaving rural healthcare practitioners without lifesaving telemedicine services. This long-overdue funding increase would be a boon to both healthcare providers and patients in rural communities across our country."[130]
In July 2019 King was one of eight senators to cosponsor the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA), a bill intended to strengthen training for new and existing physicians, people who teach palliative care, and other providers who are on palliative care teams that grant patients and their families a voice in their care and treatment goals.[131]
In October 2019 King was one of 27 senators to sign a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer advocating the passage of the Community Health Investment, Modernization, and Excellence (CHIME) Act, which was set to expire the following month. The senators warned that if the funding for the Community Health Center Fund (CHCF) was allowed to expire, it "would cause an estimated 2,400 site closures, 47,000 lost jobs, and threaten the health care of approximately 9 million Americans."[132]
King has voted against Republican attempts to completely defund
Immigration
King strongly criticized President Donald Trump's Executive Order 13769, which barred the admission of refugees to the U.S. and barred travel by nationals of several Muslim-majority countries to the country. He said: "This is probably the worst foreign policy decision since the invasion of Iraq. What it's done is played right into ISIS's hands. They want us to turn this into a war of the west against Islam. They have explicitly said they want to drive a wedge ... There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world and we don't want a war with all of them. We don't need a war with all of them. We're not opposed to all of them."[135] King noted that U.S. forces fought alongside Muslim Iraqi troops, and that Muslim nations shared valuable counterterrorism intelligence with the U.S.[135]
In 2018 King introduced legislation to halt separations of immigrant families at the border.[136]
In June 2019, King and Senator Susan Collins released a joint statement confirming that they had questioned U.S. Customs and Border Protection "on the process being used to clear" asylum seekers for transportation to Portland, Maine, and opined that it was "clearly not a sustainable approach to handling the asylum situation." Collins and King were said to both be "interested in providing additional resources to the federal agencies that process asylum claims, so we can reduce the existing backlog and adjudicate new claims in a more timely fashion."[137]
Railroad safety
In June 2019 King was one of ten senators to cosponsor the Safe Freight Act, a bill that would require freight trains have one or more certified conductors and a certified engineer aboard who can collaborate on how to protect both the train and people living near the tracks. The legislation was meant to correct a Federal Railroad Administration rollback of a proposed rule intended to establish safety standards.[138]
Same-sex marriage
King supports
Telecommunications
In April 2019 King was one of seven senators to sponsor the Digital Equity Act of 2019, legislation establishing a $120 million grant program that would fund both the creation and implementation of "comprehensive digital equity plans" in each U.S. state to support projects developed by individuals and groups. The bill also gave the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) the role of evaluating and providing guidance for digital equity projects.[141]
United States Postal Service
In March 2019 King was a cosponsor of a bipartisan resolution led by Gary Peters and Jerry Moran that opposed privatization of the United States Postal Service (USPS), citing the USPS as a self-sustained establishment and noting concerns that privatization could cause higher prices and reduced services for its customers, especially in rural communities.[142]
Personal life
King's first wife was Edie Birney.[143] She is the mother of King's three older sons. King and Birney divorced in 1982.[143]
Since 1984, King has been married to Mary Herman.[143] King has five children and six grandchildren.[144]
King is an Episcopalian.[143][145] He rides a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.[146]
As of 2018 King's net worth, according to OpenSecrets.org, was more than $9.4 million.[147]
Health issues
In June 2015, King underwent a successful surgery that removed a cancerous prostate that had been detected in a screening and biopsy. The surgery did not change King's plans to run for reelection in 2018.[148]
On August 19, 2021, King and fellow senators Roger Wicker and John Hickenlooper tested positive for COVID-19.[149] He fully recovered from the virus, saying, "I didn't feel great during the worst of my illness, but I'm confident that I would have felt a whole lot worse if I hadn't received the vaccine".[150]
Electoral history
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent
|
Angus King | 180,829 | 35.37% | N/A | |
Democratic | Joseph Brennan | 172,951 | 33.83% | -12.87% | |
Republican | Susan Collins | 117,990 | 23.08% | -23.62% | |
Green
|
Jonathan Carter | 32,695 | 6.39% | N/A | |
Write-In | Ed Finks | 6,576 | 1.29% | N/A | |
Write-ins | 267 | 0.05% | N/A | ||
Turnout | 511,308 | ~55% | |||
Independent gain from Republican
|
Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent
|
Angus King (Incumbent) | 246,772 | 58.61% | +23.25% | |
Republican | James B. Longley, Jr.
|
79,716 | 18.93% | −4.14% | |
Democratic | Thomas J. Connolly | 50,506 | 12.00% | −21.83% | |
Green
|
Pat LaMarche | 28,722 | 6.82% | +0.43% | |
Constitution | William P. Clarke, Jr. | 15,293 | 3.63% | N/A | |
Turnout | 421,009 | ||||
Independent hold
|
Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent
|
Angus King | 370,580 | 52.89% | N/A | |
Republican | Charlie Summers | 215,399 | 30.75% | −43.26% | |
Democratic | Cynthia Dill | 92,900 | 13.26% | −7.33% | |
Independent
|
Steve Woods | 10,289 | 1.47% | N/A | |
Independent
|
Danny Dalton | 5,807 | 0.83% | N/A | |
Libertarian | Andrew Ian Dodge | 5,624 | 0.80% | N/A | |
Turnout | 700,599 | ||||
Independent gain from Republican
|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent
|
Angus King (incumbent) | 344,575 | 54.31% | +1.42% | |
Republican | Eric Brakey | 223,502 | 35.23% | +4.48% | |
Democratic | Zak Ringelstein | 66,268 | 10.45% | −2.81% | |
Turnout | 634,345 | ||||
Independent hold
|
Awards, honors, and fellowships
Scholastic
- University degrees
Location | Date | School | Degree |
---|---|---|---|
New Hampshire | 1966 | Dartmouth College | Bachelor of Arts (BA) |
Virginia | 1969 | University of Virginia School of Law | Juris Doctor (JD) |
- Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships
Location | Date | School | Position |
---|---|---|---|
Maine | 2004–present | Bowdoin College | Distinguished Lecturer[25] |
Massachusetts | Fall 2004 – present | Institute of Politics at Harvard University | Fellow[25][154] |
Honorary degrees
Location | Date | School | Degree | Gave commencement address |
---|---|---|---|---|
Maine | 2007 | Bowdoin College | Doctor of Laws (LL.D)[25] |
|
Maine | May 8, 2016 | Husson University | Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)[155] | Yes |
Maine | May 12, 2018 | University of Maine at Presque Isle | Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)[156] | Yes |
Memberships and fellowships
Location | Date | Organization | Position |
---|---|---|---|
Maine | 1969–present | Maine State Bar Association | Member |
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External links
- Senator Angus King official U.S. Senate website
- Angus King for U.S. Senate campaign website
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Angus King at Curlie