Richard Blumenthal

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Richard Blumenthal
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Personal details
Born (1946-02-13) February 13, 1946 (age 79)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Cynthia Malkin Blumenthal
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(m. 1982)​
Children4, including Matt
Relatives
Education
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WebsiteSenate website
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch
Service years1970–1976
Rank
Sergeant
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Richard Blumenthal

U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut
.

Blumenthal graduated from

NAACP Legal Defense Fund
.

Blumenthal served one term in the

governor of Connecticut, but he never pursued the office. Blumenthal announced his 2010 run for the U.S. Senate after incumbent Senator Chris Dodd announced his retirement. He faced Linda McMahon, a professional wrestling magnate, in the 2010 election, winning with 55% of the vote. He was sworn in on January 5, 2011. After Joe Lieberman retired in 2013, Blumenthal became Connecticut's senior senator. He was reelected in 2016 with 63.2% of the vote, becoming the first person to receive more than a million votes in a statewide election in Connecticut, and reelected again in 2022
.

Early life and education

Blumenthal was born into a

Frankfurt, Germany; Jane was raised in Omaha, Nebraska, graduated from Radcliffe College, and became a social worker.[3][4] Martin Blumenthal had a career in financial services and became president of a commodities trading firm.[5][6][7] Jane's father, Fred "Fritz" Rosenstock, raised cattle, and as youths Blumenthal and his brother often visited their grandfather's farm. Blumenthal's brother David Blumenthal is a doctor and health care policy expert who became president of the Commonwealth Fund.[8]

Blumenthal attended

magna cum laude in government and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. As an undergraduate, he was editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson.[9] Blumenthal was a summer intern reporter for The Washington Post in the London Bureau.[10] He was selected for a Fiske Fellowship, which allowed him to study at the University of Cambridge's Trinity College
in England for one year after graduation from Harvard.

In 1973, Blumenthal received his

radio host Michael Medved.[13]

Military service and controversy

Blumenthal received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War,[14] first educational deferments, then deferments based on his occupation.[15] In April 1970, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, which, as The New York Times noted, "virtually guaranteed that he would not be sent to Vietnam".[15][16] He served in units stationed in Washington, D.C., and Connecticut from 1970 to 1976,[17][18] attaining the rank of sergeant.[19] During his 2010 Senate campaign, news report videos that showed Blumenthal claiming he had served in Vietnam created a controversy.[20] He denied having intentionally misled voters, but acknowledged having occasionally "misspoken" about his service record.[21] He later apologized to voters for remarks about his military service that he said had not been "clear or precise".[22]

Early political career

Blumenthal served as administrative assistant to Senator

Harry A. Blackmun
.

Before becoming attorney general, Blumenthal was a partner in the law firm of Cummings & Lockwood, and subsequently in the law firm of Silver, Golub & Sandak.

NAACP Legal Defense Fund.[10]

At age 31, Blumenthal was appointed

drug traffickers, organized crime, white collar criminals, civil rights violators, consumer fraud, and environmental pollution.[10]

In 1982, he married Cynthia Allison Malkin.[27] She is the daughter of real estate investor Peter L. Malkin. Her maternal grandfather was lawyer and philanthropist Lawrence Wien.[28]

In 1984, when he was 38, Blumenthal was elected to the

Connecticut Senate, at age 41.[29][30][24] Blumenthal resided in Stamford, Connecticut
.

In the 1980s, Blumenthal testified in the state legislature in favor of abolishing Connecticut's

wrongly convicted. Blumenthal succeeded in staving off Brown's execution just 15 hours before it was scheduled to take place, and gained a new trial for Brown.[31]

Attorney General of Connecticut

Blumenthal was elected the 23rd attorney general of Connecticut in 1990 and reelected in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006. On October 10, 2002, he was awarded the

Raymond E. Baldwin Award for Public Service by the Quinnipiac University School of Law.[32]

Tenure

Pequot land annexation bid

In May 1995, Blumenthal and the state of Connecticut filed lawsuits challenging a decision by the Department of the Interior to approve a bid by the federally recognized

Mashantucket Pequot for annexation of 165 acres of land in the towns of Ledyard, North Stonington and Preston.[33] The Pequot were attempting to have the land placed in a federal trust, a legal designation to provide them with land for their sovereign control, as long years of colonization had left them landless. Blumenthal argued that the Interior Department's decision in support of this action was "fatally, legally flawed, and unfair" and that "it would unfairly remove land from the tax rolls of the surrounding towns and bar local control over how the land is used, while imposing [a] tremendous burden."[34] The tribe announced the withdrawal of the land annexation petition in February 2002.[34]

Interstate air pollution

In 1997, Blumenthal and Governor John G. Rowland petitioned the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address interstate air pollution problems created from Midwest and southeastern sources.[35] The petition was filed in accordance with Section 126 of the Clean Air Act, which allows a state to request pollution reductions from out-of-state sources that contribute significantly to its air quality problems.

In 2003, Blumenthal and the attorneys general of eight other states (New York, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont) filed a federal lawsuit against the Bush administration for "endangering air quality by gutting a critical component of the federal Clean Air Act."[36] The suit alleged that changes in the act would have exempted thousands of industrial air pollution sources from the act's New Source Review provision and that the new rules and regulations would lead to an increase in air pollution.

Tobacco

While attorney general, Blumenthal was one of the leaders of a 46-state lawsuit against the tobacco industry, which alleged that the companies involved had deceived the public about the dangers of smoking.[37] He argued that the state of Connecticut should be reimbursed for Medicaid expenses related to smoking. In 1998, the tobacco companies reached a $246 billion national settlement, giving the 46 states involved 25 years of reimbursement payments. Connecticut's share of the settlement was estimated at $3.6 billion.

In December 2007, Blumenthal filed suit against

Rolling Stone magazine used cartoons in violation of the master tobacco settlement, which prohibited the use of cartoons in cigarette advertising because they entice children and teenagers to smoke.[38]
The company paid the state of Connecticut $150,000 to settle the suit and agreed to end the advertising campaign.

Microsoft lawsuit

In May 1998, Blumenthal and the attorneys general of 19 other states and the District of Columbia filed an

lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of abusing its monopoly power to stifle competition.[39] The suit, which centered on Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system and its contractual restrictions imposed on personal computer manufacturers to tie the operating system to its Internet Explorer browser, was eventually merged with a federal case brought by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) under Attorney General Janet Reno.[40]

A 2000 landmark federal court decision ruled that Microsoft had violated antitrust laws, and the court ordered that the company be broken up. In 2001, the federal appeals court agreed, but rather than break up the company, it sent the case to a new judge to hold hearings and determine appropriate remedies.[41][42] Remedies were later proposed by Blumenthal and eight other attorneys general; these included requiring that Microsoft license an unbundled version of Windows in which middleware and operating system code were not commingled.[43]

In 2001, the Bush administration's DOJ settled with Microsoft in an agreement criticized by many states and other industry experts as insufficient.[41] In November 2002, a federal court ruling imposed those same remedies. In August 2007, Blumenthal and five other states and the District of Columbia filed a report alleging that the federal settlement with Microsoft and court-imposed Microsoft remedies had failed to adequately reduce Microsoft's monopoly.[41]

Stanley Works

On May 10, 2002, Blumenthal and Connecticut State Treasurer

PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, to name but a few, have also become pseudo-foreign corporations for the sole purpose of saving tax dollars." Blumenthal said, "Corporations proposing to reincorporate to Bermuda, such as Stanley, often tell shareholders that there is no material difference in the law", but said that this was not the case and was misleading to their shareholders.[47] In order to rectify this situation he championed the Corporate Patriot Enforcement Act to close tax loopholes.[48]

Tomasso Group and Rowland corruption

Blumenthal was involved in a series of lawsuits against associates of Connecticut governor Rowland and the various entities of the Tomasso Group over Tomasso's bribing of state officials, including Rowland, in exchange for the awarding of lucrative state contracts.[49] Blumenthal subpoenaed Tomasso Brothers Inc.; Tomasso Brothers Construction Co.; TBI Construction Co. LLC; Tunxis Plantation Country Club; Tunxis Management Co.; Tunxis Management Co. II; and Tenergy Water LLC (all part of the Tomasso Group). Lawyers for the Tomasso Group argued that the attorney general had no special power to look into the operations of private firms under whistleblower law as no actual whistleblowers had come forward and all incriminating testimony was in related federal cases. Connecticut law requires the attorney general to both be the attorney for the state and investigate the state government's misdeeds, and the rules governing the office did not adequately address this inherent conflict of interest.[50] The state's case against the Tomasso Group failed but federal investigations ended in prison sentences for the Group's president, for Rowland, and for a number of his associates. The Tomasso Group stopped bidding on state contracts to avoid a substantial legal challenge from Blumenthal under newly written compliance statutes.[51]

Charter schools lawsuit

In September 1999, Blumenthal announced a lawsuit against Robin Barnes, the president and treasurer of New Haven-based charter school the Village Academy, for serious financial mismanagement of the state-subsidized charitable organization.[52] Citing common law, the suit sought to recover money misspent and serious damages resulting from Barnes's alleged breach of duty.[citation needed]

In a Connecticut Supreme Court decision, Blumenthal v. Barnes (2002), a unanimous court determined that the state attorney general could act using only the powers specifically authorized by the state legislature, and that since the attorney general's jurisdiction is defined by statute rather than common law, Blumenthal lacked the authority to cite common law as the basis for filing suit against Barnes.[53][54][55][56] Despite this ruling, Blumenthal announced that he intended to pursue a separate 2000 lawsuit against the school's trustees filed on behalf of the State Department of Education.[57]

Regional transmission organization

In 2003 Blumenthal, former

Patrick C. Lynch, and consumer advocates from Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire opposed "the formation of a regional transmission organization (RTO) that would merge three Northeast and mid-Atlantic power operators, called Independent Service Operators (ISOs), into a single super-regional RTO."[58] In a press release, he said, "This fatally flawed RTO proposal will raise rates, reduce accountability and reward market manipulation. It will increase the power and profits of transmission operators with an immediate $40 million price tag for consumers."[59] The opposition was due to a report authored by Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. Archived May 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, a Cambridge-based energy consulting firm, that alleged that consumers would be worse off under the merger.[60]

Gina Kolb lawsuit

In 2004, Blumenthal sued Computer Plus Center of East Hartford and its owner, Gina Kolb, on behalf of the state.[61] It was alleged that CPC overcharged $50 per computer, $500,000 in total, on a three-year, $17.2 million contract to supply computers to the state.[62] Blumenthal sued for $1.75 million.[62] Kolb was arrested in 2004 and charged with first-degree larceny.[63] Kolb later countersued, claiming the state had grossly abused its power.[62] Kolb was initially awarded $18.3 million in damages, but Blumenthal appealed the decision and the damages initially awarded were reduced to $1.83 million.[62] Superior Court judge Barry Stevens described the jury's initial award of $18.3 million as a "shocking injustice" and said it was "influenced by partiality or mistake."[62]

Big East and ACC

Blumenthal played a pivotal role in the expansion of the

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts exonerated Boston College in the matter. Virginia Tech accepted an invitation from the ACC and withdrew from the suit to remove itself from the awkward position of suing its new conference. An out-of-court $5 million settlement was eventually reached, which included a $1 million exit fee that Boston College was required to pay the Big East under the league's constitution.[64]

Some[who?] have speculated that the lawsuit was one of the biggest reasons that the University of Connecticut was not sought after by the ACC during its 2011 additions of then-Big East members Syracuse and Pittsburgh. From 2013 to 2020 UConn was a member of the less lucrative American Athletic Conference, the successor to the original Big East, before rejoining the Big East in 2020.

Interstate 84

On October 2, 2006, Blumenthal launched an investigation of a botched reconstruction project of

Interstate 84 in Waterbury and Cheshire. The original contractor for the job, L.G. DeFelice, went out of business and it was later revealed that hundreds of storm drains had been improperly installed.[67][68] Blumenthal subsequently announced lawsuits against L.G. DeFelice and the Maguire Group, the engineering firm that inspected the project. United States Fidelity & Guaranty, the insurer behind the performance bond for the I-84 construction, agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle the claims. Under the agreement, the state of Connecticut retained the right to sue L.G. DeFelice for additional funds.[69] In 2009, the bonding company agreed to pay an additional $4.6 million settlement, bringing the total award to $22.1 million ($30,000 more than the repair costs).[70]

Lyme disease guidelines investigation

In November 2006, Blumenthal tried, as

chilling effect on future decisions by medical associations.[77] In 2008, Blumenthal ended the investigation after the IDSA agreed to conduct a review of the guidelines.[78] In 2010, an eight-member independent review panel unanimously agreed that the original 2006 guideline recommendations were "medically and scientifically justified" in the light of the evidence. The committee did not change any of the earlier recommendations but did alter some of the language in an executive summary of the findings.[79] Blumenthal said he would review the final report.[80]

MySpace/Facebook

In March 2006, Blumenthal noted that more than seven incidents of sexual assault in Connecticut had been linked directly to

MySpace contacts.[81] Earlier that year, Blumenthal and attorneys general in at least five other states were involved in discussions with MySpace that resulted in the implementation of technological changes aimed at protecting children from pornography and child predators on the company's website.[81] At Blumenthal's urging, MySpace installed a link to free blocking software ("K9 Web Protection"), but in May 2006, Blumenthal announced that the site had failed to make the program easy to find and that it was not clearly labeled.[82] He also urged MySpace to take further steps to safeguard children, including purging deep links to pornography and inappropriate material, tougher age verification, and banning users under 16.[82]

Blumenthal was co-chair, along with North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, of the State Attorney General Task Force on Social Networking. In 2008, the attorneys general commissioned the Internet Safety Technical Task Force report, which researched "ways to help squash the onslaught of sexual predators targeting younger social-networking clients".[83]

Blumenthal's office subpoenaed MySpace for information about the number of registered sex offenders on its site. In 2009, MySpace revealed that over a two-year span it had roughly 90,000 members who were registered sex offenders (nearly double what MySpace officials had originally estimated one year earlier).[83][84][85] Blumenthal accused MySpace of having "monstrously inadequate counter-measures" to prevent sex offenders from creating MySpace profiles.

Blumenthal and Cooper secured agreements from MySpace and Facebook to make their sites safer. Both implemented dozens of safeguards, including finding better ways to verify users' ages, banning convicted sex offenders, and limiting the ability of older users to search for members under 18.[86]

In 2024, Blumenthal helped lead the Kids Online Safety Act to address depression, sexual exploitation, bullying, harassment, and other harms children experience online.[87]

Craigslist

In March 2008, Blumenthal issued a letter to Craigslist attorneys demanding that the website cease allowing postings for erotic services, which he claimed promoted prostitution, and accused the site of "turning a blind eye" to the problem.[88] He worked with Craigslist and a group of 40 attorneys general to create new measures on the site designed to thwart ads for prostitution and other illegal sexual activities. In April 2009, Craigslist came under the scrutiny of law enforcement agencies following the arrest of Philip Markoff (the "Craigslist Killer"), suspected of killing a 25-year-old masseuse he met through Craigslist at a Boston hotel.[89][90] Blumenthal subsequently called for a series of specific measures to fight prostitution and pornography on Craigslist—including steep financial penalties for rule breaking, and incentives for reporting wrongdoing.[91] He said, "Craigslist has the means—and moral obligation—to stop the pimping and prostituting in plain sight."

Leading a coalition of 39 states, in May 2010 Blumenthal subpoenaed Craigslist as part of an investigation into whether the site was taking sufficient action to curb prostitution ads and whether it was profiting from them.[89] He said that prostitution ads remained on the site despite previous assurances that they would be removed.[89] The subpoena sought documents related to Craigslist's processes for reviewing potentially objectionable ads, as well as documents detailing the revenue gained from ads sold to Craigslist's erotic services and adult services categories.[92] In August 2010, Blumenthal called on Craigslist to shut the section down permanently and take steps to eradicate prostitution ads from other parts of the site. He also called on Congress to alter a landmark communications law (the Communications Decency Act) that Craigslist has cited in defense of the ads.[92]

Following continued pressure, Craigslist removed the adult services sections from its U.S. sites in September 2010[93][94] and from its international sites in December 2010.[95] Blumenthal called the decision a victory against sexual exploitation of women and children, and against human trafficking connected to prostitution.[95]

Blumenthal and other state attorneys general reached a settlement with Craigslist on the issue; the settlement called for the company to charge people via credit card for any ads that were suggestive in nature so the person could be tracked down if they were determined to be offering prostitution. But Blumenthal remarked that after the settlement, the ads continued to flourish using code words.[citation needed]

Terrorist surveillance program

In October 2007, Blumenthal and the attorneys general of four other states lobbied Congress to reject proposals to provide immunity from litigation to telecommunications firms that cooperated with the federal government's

terrorist surveillance program following the September 11 attacks.[96]
In 2008 Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law a new terrorist surveillance bill including the telecom immunity provisions Blumenthal opposed.

Countrywide Financial

In August 2008, Blumenthal announced that Connecticut had joined California, Illinois and Florida in suing subprime mortgage lender

Countrywide Financial (now owned by Bank of America) for fraudulent business practices.[97][98] The suit alleged that Countrywide pushed consumers into "deceptive, unaffordable loans and workouts, and charged homeowners in default unjustified and excessive legal fees." According to Blumenthal, "Countrywide conned customers into loans that were clearly unaffordable and unsustainable, turning the American Dream of homeownership into a nightmare" and when consumers defaulted, "the company bullied them into workouts doomed to fail." He also claimed that Countrywide "crammed unconscionable legal fees into renegotiated loans, digging consumers deeper into debt" and "broke promises that homeowners could refinance, condemning them to hopelessly unaffordable loans."[97] The lawsuit demanded that Countrywide make restitution to affected borrowers, give up improper gains and rescind, reform or modify all mortgages that broke state laws. It is also sought civil fines of up to $100,000 per violation of state banking laws, and up to $5,000 per violation of state consumer protection laws.[99]

In October 2008, Bank of America initially agreed to settle the states' suits for $8.4 billion, and in February 2010, Countrywide mailed payments of $3,452.54 to 370 Connecticut residents.[100] The settlement forced Bank of America to establish a $150 million fund to help repay borrowers whose homes had been foreclosed upon, $1.3 million of which went to Connecticut.

Blumenthal commented in defense of U.S. senator and

Senate Ethics Committee, which found "no credible evidence" that he knowingly tried to use his status as a U.S. senator to receive loan terms not available to the public.[100]

Global warming

Blumenthal has been a vocal advocate of the

Second Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to allow Blumenthal's lawsuit to proceed.[103] Blumenthal has said, "no reputable climate scientist disputes the reality of global warming. It is fact, plain and simple. Dithering will be disastrous."[104]

Prospect of gubernatorial candidacy

Blumenthal was often considered a top prospect for the

governor of Connecticut
, but never ran for the office.

On March 18, 2007, Hartford Courant columnist Kevin Rennie reported that Blumenthal had become seriously interested in running for governor in 2010.[105] On February 2, 2009, Blumenthal announced he would forgo a gubernatorial run and seek reelection that year as attorney general.[106]

U.S. Senate

Elections

2010

Main article: 2010 United States Senate election in Connecticut
Election results by county

After

the election for Dodd's seat in November 2010.[107] Later that day, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden called Blumenthal to express their best wishes.[108]

The same day, Public Policy Polling released a poll they took on the two preceding evenings, including races where Blumenthal was paired against each of the three most-mentioned Republicans contending for their party's nomination for the seat. He led by at least 30% in each hypothetical race: against Rob Simmons (59%–28%), against Linda McMahon (60%–28%), and against Peter Schiff (63%–23%), with a 4.3% margin of error cited.[109] Rasmussen Reports also polled after Blumenthal announced his candidacy and found a somewhat more competitive race, but with Blumenthal holding a strong lead.

A February poll by Rasmussen found that Blumenthal held leads of 19 against Simmons and 20 against McMahon, and that Republicans had made up little ground since the initial Rasmussen poll after Blumenthal announced.[110] On May 21, Blumenthal received the Democratic nomination by acclamation.[111]

The New York Times reported that Blumenthal misspoke on at least one occasion by saying he'd served with the military "in Vietnam".[16][112] Video emerged of him speaking to a group of veterans and supporters in March 2008 in Norwalk, saying, in reference to supporting troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, "We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam."[113] There were also other occasions where he accurately described his military service. At a 2008 ceremony in Shelton, Connecticut, he said, "I served during the Vietnam era... I remember the taunts, the insults, sometimes even physical abuse."[16][114]

Blumenthal's commanding officer in 1974 and 1975, Larry Baldino of Woodbridge, addressed the controversy in a letter to the editor in the New Haven Register. Baldino wrote that the misleading statement was too "petty" to be the basis for supporting or not supporting Blumenthal. Baldino further called Blumenthal "good-natured" and "one of the best Marines with whom I ever worked".[115]

Days after the nomination, Quinnipiac University Polling Institute polling indicated that Blumenthal held a 25-point lead over McMahon.[116] The Cook Political Report changed its assessment of the race to Leans Democratic, making Blumenthal the favored candidate over McMahon.[117]

Blumenthal won the November 2 election, defeating McMahon 55% to 43%.

2016

Main article: 2016 United States Senate election in Connecticut
Results of the 2016 U.S. Senate election in Connecticut by town

2016 Senate election.[118]

In August 2015, economist Larry Kudlow threatened to run against Blumenthal if Blumenthal voted in favor of the Iran Nuclear Deal.[119]

According to a pair of Quinnipiac polls on October 15, 2015, Blumenthal had a 34-point lead over Kudlow[120] and a 35-point lead over Wolf.[121]

Blumenthal was reelected with 63% of the vote against Republican state representative

Dan Carter, becoming the first person in Connecticut's history to receive over a million votes in a single election.[122]

2022

Main article: 2022 United States Senate election in Connecticut

In November 2020, Blumenthal announced that he would seek reelection in 2022.[123] In the general election, he defeated Leora Levy, who defeated former Connecticut House Minority Leader Themis Klarides in the Republican primary.[124]

Tenure

Blumenthal during the 112th Congress

Blumenthal was sworn into the 112th United States Congress on January 5, 2011. He announced plans to return to Connecticut every weekend to join a "listening tour" of his home state.[125]

Navy Distinguished Public Service Medal
to U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal in 2012.

In March 2012, Blumenthal and New York senator Chuck Schumer gained national attention after they called upon Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice to investigate practices by employers to require Facebook passwords for employee applicants and workers.[126]

Blumenthal worked with Senator Mark Kirk to eliminate pensions for members of Congress who are convicted of felonies while serving in office.[127]

In

US Constitution.[128]

In the wake of the

2021 storming of the United States Capitol, Blumenthal blamed Trump, saying that Trump "incited, instigated and supported" the attack. He called for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[129] Blumenthal also requested an investigation into the lack of response from law enforcement and the military.[130]

In December 2021, Blumenthal gave a speech honoring three local labor activists at an awards ceremony in New Haven that was hosted by the Connecticut People's World Committee, an affiliate of the Connecticut Communist Party.[131] After criticism from national Republican politicians and conservative media outlets, Blumenthal said that he is "a strong supporter and believer in American capitalism" and would not have attended had he known of the group's Communist ties.[132]

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

Legislation sponsored

The following is an incomplete list of legislation that Blumenthal has sponsored:

  • Affordable College Textbook Act (S. 1864; 115th Congress)

Political positions

The American Conservative Union gave him a 3% lifetime conservative rating in 2019.[136]

Abortion

Blumenthal is pro-choice. He supports efforts to make it a crime for demonstrators to block access to health clinics. He opposed efforts by Walmart to ban the sale of emergency contraception and supports requirements that pharmacies fill birth control prescriptions. He supports federal funding for family planning clinics.[137] After Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, Blumenthal said the decision "strips women of the freedom to make their own health care decisions & puts that power in the hands of the government."[138]

Animal welfare

In 2024, Blumenthal and U.S. representatives

chimpanzees and other primates as pets.[139] The legislation was endorsed by animal rights and animal welfare groups and law enforcement associations.[139] On account of his legislative record, Blumenthal has received positive lifetime evaluations from the Humane World Action Fund.[140]

Foreign relations

China

In April 2018, Blumenthal stated his support for "strong efforts to crack down on intellectual property theft and unfair trade practices by China or any other nation", but said that Trump was implementing "trade policy by tweet, reaction based on impulse and rash rhetoric that can only escalate tensions with all economic powers and lead to a trade war" and that U.S. actions through trade without a strategy or an endgame seemed "highly dangerous" to the American economy.[141]

In June 2018, Blumenthal cosponsored a bipartisan bill that would reinstate penalties on

National Defense Authorization Act for 2019 and was in direct contrast to the Trump administration's announced intent to ease sanctions on ZTE.[142]

In August 2018, Blumenthal and 16 other lawmakers urged the Trump administration to impose sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act against

human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region.[143] They wrote, "The detention of as many as a million or more Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in 'political reeducation' centers or camps requires a tough, targeted, and global response."[144]

In May 2019, Blumenthal was a cosponsor of the South China Sea and East China Sea Sanctions Act, a bipartisan bill reintroduced by Marco Rubio and Ben Cardin that was intended to disrupt China's consolidation or expansion of its claims of jurisdiction over both the sea and air space in disputed zones in the South China Sea.[145]

In July 2019, Blumenthal was a cosponsor of the Defending America's 5G Future Act, a bill that would prevent Huawei from being removed from the "entity list" of the Commerce Department without an act of Congress and authorize Congress to block administration waivers for U.S. companies to do business with Huawei. The bill would also codify Trump's executive order from the previous May that empowered his administration to block foreign tech companies deemed a national security threat from conducting business in the United States.[146]

In 2025, Blumenthal supported

secondary sanctions against Russia that would impose 500% tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil, natural gas, uranium and other exports. China is one of the major consumers of Russian energy.[147]

Middle East

Blumenthal with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on October 22, 2023

In March 2017, Blumenthal co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S.270), which made it a federal crime, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment,[148] for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories if protesting actions by the Israeli government.[149]

In March 2019, Blumenthal was one of nine Democratic senators to sign a letter to Salman of Saudi Arabia requesting the release of human rights lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair and writer Raif Badawi, women's rights activists Loujain al-Hathloul and Samar Badawi, and Dr. Walid Fitaih. The senators wrote, "Not only have reputable international organizations detailed the arbitrary detention of peaceful activists and dissidents without trial for long periods, but the systematic discrimination against women, religious minorities and mistreatment of migrant workers and others has also been well-documented."[150]

In October 2022, Saudi Arabia, with Russia, announced a cut of 2 million barrels a day of oil production at the OPEC+ meeting. Blumenthal accused

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In an opinion piece, he and Ro Khanna proposed to promptly pause the massive transfer of American warfare technology to Saudi Arabia and take a tougher stance against the kingdom.[151][152]

Government shutdown

In March 2019, Blumenthal and 38 other senators signed a letter to the Appropriations Committee opining that contractor workers and by extension their families "should not be penalized for a government shutdown that they did nothing to cause" while noting that there were bills in both chambers of Congress that would provide back pay to compensate contractor employees for lost wages, urging the Appropriations Committee "to include back pay for contractor employees in a supplemental appropriations bill for FY2019 or as part of the regular appropriations process for FY2020."[153]

Gun control

Blumenthal speaks in favor of gun control in 2017

Blumenthal supports gun control. He supports a national assault weapons ban and introduced such a ban in 2017 and 2023.

NRA Political Victory Fund for his pro-gun-control voting record.[156]

In response to the

universal background checks.[157]

In January 2016, Blumenthal was one of 18 senators to sign a letter to Thad Cochran and Barbara Mikulski requesting that the Labor, Health and Education subcommittee hold a hearing on whether to allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to fund a study of gun violence and "the annual appropriations rider that some have interpreted as preventing it" with taxpayer dollars. The senators noted their support for taking steps "to fund gun-violence research, because only the United States government is in a position to establish an integrated public-health research agenda to understand the causes of gun violence and identify the most effective strategies for prevention."[158]

In the wake of the

Orlando nightclub shooting, Blumenthal said, "The Senate's inaction on commonsense gun violence prevention makes it complicit in this public health crisis. Prayers and platitudes are insufficient. The American public is beseeching us to act on commonsense, sensible gun violence prevention measures, and we must heed that call."[159]

In October 2016, Blumenthal participated in the Chris Murphy gun control filibuster, speaking in support of the Feinstein Amendment, which would have banned people known to be or suspected of being terrorists from buying guns.[160] That same year, he stated his support for efforts to require toy or fake firearms to have orange parts so they could more easily be distinguished from real guns.[161]

In response to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Blumenthal declared in an interview with Judy Woodruff, "we must break the grip of the NRA". He continued, "we can at least save lives. Would it have prevented the Las Vegas atrocity, that unspeakable tragedy? We will never know. But it might have, and we can definitely prevent such mass shootings by adopting these kinds of commonsense measures."[162]

In 2018, Blumenthal was a cosponsor of the NICS Denial Notification Act,

Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that would require federal authorities to inform states within a day after a person failing the National Instant Criminal Background Check System attempted to buy a firearm.[164]

In January 2019, Blumenthal was one of 40 senators to introduce the Background Check Expansion Act, a bill that would require background checks for either the sale or transfer of all firearms including all unlicensed sellers. Exceptions to the bill's background check requirement included transfers between members of law enforcement, loaning firearms for either hunting or sporting events on a temporary basis, providing firearms as gifts to members of one's immediate family, firearms being transferred as part of an inheritance, or giving a firearm to another person temporarily for immediate self-defense.[165]

In June 2019, Blumenthal was one of four senators to cosponsor the Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act, legislation that would ban suppressors being imported, sold, made, sent elsewhere or possessed and grant a silencer buyback program as well as include certain exceptions for current and former law enforcement personnel and others. The bill was intended to respond to the Virginia Beach shooting, where the perpetrator used a .45-caliber handgun with multiple extended magazines and a suppressor.[166]

Health care

In February 2019, Blumenthal and 22 other Democratic senators introduced the State Public Option Act, a bill that would authorize states to form a Medicaid buy-in program for all residents and thereby grant all denizens of the state the ability to buy into a state-driven Medicaid health insurance plan if they wished. Brian Schatz, a bill cosponsor, said the legislation would "unlock each state's Medicaid program to anyone who wants it, giving people a high-quality, low-cost public health insurance option", and that its goal was "to make sure that every single American has comprehensive health care coverage."[167]

In June 2019, Blumenthal was one of eight senators to cosponsor the Territories Health Equity Act of 2019, legislation that would remove the cap on annual federal Medicaid funding and increase federal matching rate for Medicaid expenditures of territories along with more funds being provided for prescription drug coverage to low-income seniors in an attempt to equalize funding for American territories Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands with that of U.S. states.[168]

In June 2019, Blumenthal and 14 other senators introduced the Affordable Medications Act, legislation intended to promote transparency by mandating that pharmaceutical companies disclose the amount of money going to research and development, marketing and executives' salaries. The bill also abolished the restriction that stopped the federal Medicare program from using its buying power to negotiate lower drug prices for beneficiaries and hinder drug company monopoly practices used to keep prices high and disable less expensive generics entering the market.[169]

In August 2019, Blumenthal was one of 19 senators to sign a letter to

Steve Mnuchin and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar requesting data from the Trump administration in order to help states and Congress understand the potential consequences in the event that the Texas v. United States Affordable Care Act (ACA) lawsuit prevailed in courts, claiming that an overhaul of the present health care system would form "an enormous hole in the pocketbooks of the people we serve as well as wreck state budgets".[170] That same month, Blumenthal, three other Senate Democrats, and Bernie Sanders signed a letter to acting FDA commissioner Ned Sharpless in response to Novartis falsifying data as part of an attempt to gain the FDA's approval for its new gene therapy Zolgensma, writing that it was "unconscionable that a drug company would provide manipulated data to federal regulators in order to rush its product to market, reap federal perks, and charge the highest amount in American history for its medication."[171]

Immigration

In August 2018, Blumenthal was one of 17 senators to sign a letter spearheaded by Kamala Harris to United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen demanding that the Trump administration take immediate action in attempting to reunite 539 migrant children with their families, citing each passing day of inaction as intensifying "trauma that this administration has needlessly caused for children and their families seeking humanitarian protection."[172]

In April 2019, Blumenthal was one of six Democratic senators to sign a letter to acting defense secretary Patrick M. Shanahan expressing concern over memos by Marine Corps general Robert Neller in which Neller critiqued deployments to the southern border and funding transfers under Trump's national emergency declaration as having posed an "unacceptable risk to Marine Corps combat readiness and solvency" and noted that other military officials had recently stated that troop deployment did not affect readiness. The senators requested Shanahan explain the inconsistencies and that he provide both "a staff-level briefing on this matter within seven days" and an explanation of how he would address Neller's concerns.[173]

In June 2019, following the Housing and Urban Development Department's confirmation that DACA recipients did not meet eligibility for federal backed loans, Blumenthal and 11 other senators introduced The Home Ownership Dreamers Act, legislation that mandated that the federal government was not authorized to deny mortgage loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or the Agriculture Department solely due to an applicant's immigration status.[174]

In June 2019, Blumenthal and six other Democratic senators led by Brian Schatz sent letters to the Government Accountability Office along with the suspension and debarment official and inspector general at the US Department of Health and Human Services citing recent reports that showed "significant evidence that some federal contractors and grantees have not provided adequate accommodations for children in line with legal and contractual requirements" and urging government officials to determine whether federal contractors and grantees were in violation of contractual obligations or federal regulations and should thus face financial consequences.[175]

In July 2019, following reports that the Trump administration intended to end protections of spouses, parents and children of active-duty service members from deportation, Blumenthal was one of 22 senators to sign a letter led by Tammy Duckworth arguing that the program allowed service members the ability "to fight for the United States overseas and not worry that their spouse, children, or parents will be deported while they are away" and that the program's termination would cause personal hardship for service members in combat.[176]

In July 2019, Blumenthal and 15 other Senate Democrats introduced the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act, which mandated that ICE agents get approval from a supervisor before engaging in enforcement actions at sensitive locations except in special circumstances and that agents receive annual training in addition to being required to annually report enforcement actions in those locations.[177]

LGBT rights

In September 2014, Blumenthal was one of 69 members of the US House and Senate to sign a letter to then-FDA commissioner

corneas and other tissues by men who have had sex with another man in the preceding 5 years.[178][179]

In June 2019, Blumenthal was one of 18 senators to sign a letter to

Pride Month or the annual cable outlining activities for embassies commemorating Pride Month. They also asked why the LGBTI special envoy position had remained vacant and asserted that "preventing the official flying of rainbow flags and limiting public messages celebrating Pride Month signals to the international community that the United States is abandoning the advancement of LGBTI rights as a foreign policy priority."[180]

In 2022, Blumenthal voted for the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation intended to codify same-sex marriage rights into federal law.[181]

Protest against the GOP health bill at the United States Capitol in July 2017

In 2023, Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn co-sponsored the Kids Online Safety Act,[182] which more than 90 human rights and LGBTQ rights organizations oppose as an attack on LGBTQ people and abortion rights. Blumenthal and Blackburn reintroduced the bill in 2025.[183]

Special Counsel investigation

In March 2019, after Attorney General William Barr released a summary of the Mueller report, Blumenthal said the issue was about "obstruction of justice, no exoneration there, and the judgment by William Barr may have been completely improper" and that he did not "deeply respect and trust the Barr summary, which was designed to frame the message before the information was available."[184] After the Justice Department publicly released the redacted version of the report the following month, Blumenthal said, "What's demonstrated in powerful and compelling detail in this report is nothing less than a national scandal. This report is far from the end of the inquiry that this country needs and deserves. It is the beginning of another chapter."[185]

In April 2019, Blumenthal was one of 12 Democratic senators to sign a letter led by Mazie Hirono that questioned Barr's decision to offer "his own conclusion that the President's conduct did not amount to obstruction of justice" and called for both the Justice Department's inspector general and the Office of Professional Responsibility to launch an investigation into whether Barr's summary of the Mueller report and his April 18 news conference were misleading.[186]

2024 New Jersey drone sightings

In 2024, Blumenthal said suspicious

North Atlantic region should be shot down if necessary and that "We should be doing some very urgent intelligence analysis and take them out of the skies, especially if they're flying over airports or military bases".[187]

Personal life

On June 27, 1982, Blumenthal married Cynthia Malkin.[188][3] They were engaged during her senior year at Harvard and married the following year.[189] She is the daughter of Peter L. Malkin and maternal granddaughter of Lawrence Wien.[189] They have four children. Their son Matt Blumenthal was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 147th district in 2018.[190]

Blumenthal's wealth exceeds $100 million, making him one of the Senate's richest members. His family's net worth derives largely from his wife; the Malkins are influential real estate developers and property managers with holdings including an ownership stake in the

Scott Malkin is a co-owner of the New York Islanders
.

On April 8, 2023, while at a parade celebrating the UConn Huskies men's basketball team winning the 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament championship, another attendee inadvertently fell on Blumenthal, causing a minor fracture of his femur. He underwent surgery, which he said was successful, and left the hospital on April 10.[192]

Electoral history

Connecticut Legislature

Connecticut 145th State House District General Election, 1984[193]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Richard Blumenthal 4,863 68.18
Republican Johan M. Andersen III 2,270 31.82
Total votes 7,133 100.00
Democratic hold
Connecticut 27th State Senate District General Election, 1988[194]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Richard Blumenthal (incumbent) 21,947 65.88
Republican Ted Lewis 11,366 34.12
Total votes 33,313 100.00
Democratic hold

Connecticut Attorney General

Connecticut Attorney General General Election, 1990[195]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Richard Blumenthal 572,972 59.18
Republican E. Gaynor Brennan Jr. 395,289 40.82
Total votes 968,261 100.00
Connecticut Attorney General General Election, 1994[196]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Richard Blumenthal 446,434 43.60
A Connecticut Party (1990)
 Richard Blumenthal 232,879 22.74
Total Richard Blumenthal (incumbent) 679,313 66.34
Republican Richard E. Arnold 344,627 33.66
Total votes 1,023,940 100.00
Democratic hold
Connecticut Attorney General General Election, 1998[197]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Richard Blumenthal (incumbent) 631,588 68.55
Republican Santa Mendoza 282,289 30.64
Libertarian Richard J. Pober 7,537 0.82
Total votes 921,414 100.00
Democratic hold
Connecticut Attorney General General Election, 2002[198]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Richard Blumenthal (incumbent) 632,351 65.65
Republican Martha Dean 330,874 34.35
Total votes 963,225 100.00
Democratic hold
Connecticut Attorney General General Election, 2006[199]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Richard Blumenthal (incumbent) 782,235 74.08
Republican Robert Farr 256,018 24.25
Green Nancy Burton 17,684 1.67
write-in
 John M. Joy 4 0.00
Total votes 1,055,941 100.00
Democratic hold

U.S. Senator

Connecticut US Senator (Class III) General Election, 2010[200]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Richard Blumenthal 605,204 52.52
Working Families Richard Blumenthal 30,836 2.68
Total Richard Blumenthal 636,040 55.19
Republican Linda McMahon 498,341 43.24
Independent Warren B. Mosier 11,275 0.98
Independent Dr. John Mertens 6,735 0.58
Total votes 1,152,391 100.00
Democratic hold
Connecticut US Senator (Class III) General Election, 2016[201]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Richard Blumenthal 920,766 57.68
Working Families Richard Blumenthal 87,948 5.48
Total Richard Blumenthal (incumbent) 1,008,714 63.19
Republican
Dan Carter
 552,621 34.62
Libertarian Richard Lion 18,190 1.14
Green Jeffery Russell 16,713 1.05
Total votes 1,596,238 100.00
Democratic hold
Connecticut US Senator (Class III) General Election, 2022[202]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Richard Blumenthal (incumbent) 724,785 57.45
Republican Leora Levy 536,020 42.54
Write-in 80 0.0
Total votes 1,260,885 100.00
Democratic hold

See also

Notes

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Peter Dorsey
 United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut
1977–1981 		Succeeded by
Alan Nevas
Preceded by Attorney General of Connecticut
1991–2011 		Succeeded by
Connecticut House of Representatives
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Anthony Truglia
 Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
from the 145th district
1985–1987 		Succeeded by
Nicholas Pavia
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Connecticut Senate
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