Bingaman Jeff

Jeff Bingaman is a US Senator that was given birth to on the 3^rd of October, 1943 into a family with serious small town background. His growing up days was in Silver City, New Mexico. His father; a professor of science taught at the Western New Mexico University, while his mother was a public school teacher.

After he graduated from Western High School (now known as Silver High School) he headed for Harvard University to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in government. This was in 1965. After which, he then enrolled to study law at the Stanford Law School, completing his studies in the year 1968. It was while in Stanford studying law that he met Anne Kovacovich who later became his wife. They have a son.

Alright after being called to the bar, Senator Bingaman began work as an attorney (private practice) with his wife. And from the years 1968 – 1974, he was a US Army Reserve member. Also, the senator had a brief work experience in the office of Attorney General. There after he offered himself to serve in the position of the Attorney General in 1978 and was duly elected. Some of the important issues that were of great concerns to him during his tenure as the State Attorney General include antitrust as well as environmental issues.

His first time or first term in the Senate was due to his unseating of the incumbent, Harrison Schmitt after winning him in the election that took place in 1982. Today, he is one of the longest serving senators and has survived five terms, facing serious opposition only once in the year 1994.

One of the areas that the senator has been much involved in is the illegal immigration debate. This is understandable since New Mexico the state that he represents is one that lies at the border. He believes that border enforcement should be increased in order to checkmate the influx of illegal immigrants.

Another area that has been of interest to Senator Bingaman is the environment as well as energy. In his entire political career he has worked tirelessly to protect public lands and wildlife. In this regard, he has thrown his weight behind the Clean Energy Act of 2007. Okay the committees in which Senator Bingaman is a member of include: Joint Economic Committee, Finance Committee, Energy and Natural Resources Committee and Health, Education, labor and Pensions Committee.

Ayotte Kelly

Kelly Ayotte hails from Nashua, New-Hampshire and is a member of the US Senate. She was born on the 27^th of July, 1968 and is the first female Attorney General of New Hampshire. She was appointed to this position for the first time in the year 2004 and then reappointed twice thereafter. Her election to the Senate was in 2010 after winning 60% of the votes cast. In the House, Senator Kelly serves in various committees – Small Businesses, Armed Services, Budget, and Commerce.

When she was Attorney General, the Senator worked together with the law enforcement statewide to ensure the protection of New-Hampshire citizens. In this way, she helped in distinguishing this State not just as one of the safest in the country, but in fact as the safest. She worked tirelessly in her effort to make sure that stiff new laws that crackdown on internet and sexual predators were passed, especially against those targeting children. Also, due to her strong commitment to honesty, while in government, this former Attorney General held public office members accountable – irrespective of their political affiliation or position.

In 2008 for successfully spearheading efforts to ensure the very 1^st capital murder sentences in more than 60 years in the State of New-Hampshire, she was named “Citizen of the Year.” Prior to becoming Attorney General, Senator Kelly had been an Assistant Attorney General as well as the Homicide Unit’s Chief. One of the things she achieved while being New-Hampshire’s senior murder prosecutor was in securing convictions for 2 defendants that were charged with callously killing 2 college professors (the Dartmouth Murders).

Senator Kelly was educated in public schools in Nashua and is a Pennsylvania State University graduate completing her studies in the year 1990 with honors. Subsequently, in the year 1993 she obtained her Juris Doctor degree from the School of Law Villanova University. After her education, the Senator got back to New-Hampshire and then served there as a legal clerk to Justice Sherman Horton. She is married to a native of Nashua and has two children for him. Her husband is Joe Daley who during the war in Iraq flew planes in combat missions. Presently, he is a Lieutenant Colonel and she has assisted him in launching a landscaping-and-snow-removal firm. This business venture provides her with the much needed firsthand information of how the decisions that are made in the political capital Washington impact on small businesses.