First Political Office: January 12, 1987 - Washington House of Representatives
First Federal Office: January 3, 1993 - United States House of Representatives
Current Federal Office: United States Senator January 3, 2001 - Present
Private Sector Employment: Vice President of Consumer Products - RealNetworks 1995-1999
United States Debt January 31, 1993: $4.167 Trillion
United States Debt January 31, 2001 $5.716 Trillion
United States Debt November 8, 2023: 33.706 Trillion
Debt added during Senate Tenure: $27.99 Trillion
Average price of gas 1993: $1.11
Average price of gas 2001: $1.46
Average price of gas 2023: $3.40
Increase in the price of gas during Senate Tenure: $2.29 or $34.35 for 15 gallons of gas.
Average price of public college in 1993: $6,210
Average price of public college in 2001: $9,030
Average price of public college in 2023: $27,841
Increase in the price of college during Senate Tenure: $18,811
Cumulative Rate of Inflation from 2001 to 2023 is 73.89%.
Congressional approval rating 1993: 24%
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“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
