Richard Blumenthal

Democrat · CT · U.S. Senate

Bio

Richard Blumenthal is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been a member of the Senate since 2011. Blumenthal previously served as U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut, as a member of the Connecticut General Assembly, and as the 23rd Connecticut attorney general.

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Record of service

In office: 15.7 years
First took office: 2011 (3 terms)
Seniority: 41 of 100 by time served
Age: 80
Senate class: 3 · senior senator

District offices

Bridgeport, CT · 203-330-0598
Hartford, CT · 860-258-6940

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Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.23

Healthcare

D+0.82

Immigration & Border

D+0.78

Guns

R+0.16

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.33

Environment & Energy

D+0.83

Crime & Policing

D+0.48

Defense & Veterans

D+0.35

Economy & Labor

D+0.81

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.64

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.75

Education

D+0.77

Government & Democracy

D+0.67

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.81

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Richard Blumenthal's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

89%Closest

Green Party

87%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

83%

Communist Party USA

82%

Libertarian Party

64%

Republican Party

38%

On the political map

Richard Blumenthal (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Blumenthalsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Committees

United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Controlcenter · 7 members
Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
Airland Personnel Seapower
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 members
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (Ranking Member)Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census
Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 21 members
Crime and Counterterrorism Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Privacy, Technology, and the Law
Senate Committee on Veterans' AffairsRanking Membercenter · 19 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Blumenthal's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.