First Political Office: Mayor of Union City May 20, 1986
First Federal Office: United States House of Representatives January 3, 1993
Current Federal Office: United States Senate January 17, 2006
Private Sector Employment: Lawyer
United States Debt January 31, 1993: $4.167 Trillion
United States Debt January 31, 2006 $8.371 Trillion
United States Debt November 8, 2023: 33.706 Trillion
Debt added during Senate Tenure: $25.335 Trillion
Average price of gas 1993: $1.11
Average price of gas 2006: $2.64
Average price of gas 2023: $3.40
Increase in the price of gas during Senate Tenure: $.76 or $11.40 for 15 gallons of gas.
Average price of public college in 1993: $6,210
Average price of public college in 2006: $14,719
Average price of public college in 2023: $27,841
Increase in the price of college during Senate Tenure: $13,122
Cumulative Rate of Inflation from 2006 to 2023 is 52.7%
Congressional approval rating 1993: 24%
Congressional approval rating 2006: 21%
Congressional approval rating 2023: 17%
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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
