Richard Blumenthal

16 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2011

• Senator CT 2011–present

• background Born February 13, 1946; graduated from Harvard University and Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal
• background Served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1970 to 1976, reaching the rank of sergeant
• background U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut from 1977 to 1981
• role Served in the Connecticut House and Senate in the 1980s, then as Connecticut Attorney General for 20 years (1990-2010)
• role A Democrat, U.S. Senator from Connecticut since 2011 (elected 2010 over Linda McMahon), reelected 2016 and 2022
• role Became Connecticut's senior senator in 2013 after Joe Lieberman retired

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $25,804 · 81 receipts

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

• 100.0%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 30 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

  Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

• 123
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 788 cosponsored

  A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

• 0
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 123 bills sponsored

  Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

• 100%
  Party-unity voting →

  votes with the party majority · median 100% · on 11 party-line votes

  Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

• 0%
  Cross-party voting →

  votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

  The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

  Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

• 14
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

  Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Richard Blumenthal. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Ranking Member
• Veterans' Affairs Committee Ranking Member
• Airland Subcommittee
• Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights Subcommittee
• Armed Services Committee · oversees Defense
• Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee
• Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census Subcommittee
• Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Subcommittee
• Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
• Judiciary Committee · oversees Technology
• Personnel Subcommittee
• Privacy, Technology, and the Law Subcommittee · oversees Technology
• Seapower Subcommittee
• United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control

Data from FEC, itemized campaign receipts

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

• DefenseOppose from votes
• Economy & TaxesFull support from votes
• Foreign PolicyPartial support from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

The members Blumenthal most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Blumenthal connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

Data from Congress.gov