Richard Blumenthal
U.S. Senator from Connecticut
Richard Blumenthal was born in February 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. He earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard College. He spent a study year at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge in England. He received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve where he served six years.
Blumenthal served as an administrative assistant to Senator Abraham Ribicoff and was an aide to Daniel Moynihan when Moynihan was Assistant to President Richard Nixon. He later clerked at the U.S. District Court in Connecticut and for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. He entered into private practice.
He was appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, where he served four years. He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives before being elected Attorney General of Connecticut, a position he held until his election to the U.S. Senate, where he assumed his seat in January 2011.
He is married to Cynthia Malkin and they have four children. He is Jewish.
In the News…
After a closed-door briefing from Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut responded to the government’s failures pertaining to the assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump’s life.
“I think the American people are going to be shocked, astonished, and appalled by what we will report to them about the failures by the Secret Service in this assassination attempt on a former president,” Senator Blumenthal said. “But I think they also ought to be appalled and astonished by the failure of the Department of Homeland Security to be more forthcoming, to be as candid and frank as it should be to them, in terms of providing information.
“And we are going to absolutely insist on the truth — and the whole truth — in documents and testimony as members of the United States Senate, but also as citizens.”
Senator Blumenthal, who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations within the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, stated, “I’m ready, willing, and able to use the subpoena process, if necessary, to get information from the Department of Homeland Security. And we have told them repeatedly about our frustration. I’m deeply dissatisfied and disappointed.”
Federal legislators are planning to release an interim report.
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The Honorable Richard Blumenthal
Senator from Connecticut
706 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
