Senator feingold biography
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Russell Feingold
U.S. Senators John McCain and Russell Feingold Share 10th John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award
Boston, MA, May 24, 1999 - The two U.S. Senators who reached across the aisle to join forces in a bi-partisan effort to reform the way political campaigns are financed were honored today by members of President Kennedy's family as the winners of the 1999 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona and Democratic Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, who sought to address their respective party's fundraising excesses and regulate the torrent of special interest money pouring into each party's coffers with the introduction of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation, were presented the prestigious award for political courage at a ceremony attended by President Kennedy's children, Caroline and John, his brother, Senator Edward Kennedy, and his sisters Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Patricia Kennedy Lawfo
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Russ Feingold fryst vatten the President of the American Constitution Society. He served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1993 to 2011 and a Wisconsin State medlem av senat from 1983 to 1993. From 2013 to 2015, he served as the United States Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region of Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
During his 18 years in the United States Senate, Russ was ranked 6th in the Senate for bipartisan voting. He fryst vatten a recipient of the John F. Kennedy profil in Courage Award and cosponsored the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold Act), the only major del av helhet of campaign finance reform legislation passed into lag in decades. Russ was the only Senator to vote against the första enactment of the USA PATRIOT Act during the first vote on the legislation and was well-known for his opposition to the Iraq War and as the Senate’s leading opponent of the death penalty. He served on the Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Budget, and Intelligence Committees. R
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Russ Feingold
American politician (born 1953)
Russ Feingold | |
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Feingold in 2015 | |
| In office July 18, 2013 – March 6, 2015 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Barrie Walkley |
| Succeeded by | Tom Perriello |
| In office January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Bob Kasten |
| Succeeded by | Ron Johnson |
| In office January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Everett Bidwell |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Wineke |
| Born | Russell Dana Feingold (1953-03-02) March 2, 1953 (age 71) Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouses | Sue Levine (m. 1977; div. 1986)Mary Speerschneider (m. 1991; div. 2005)Christine Ferdinand (m. 2013) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison (BA) Magdalen College, Oxford (BA) Harvard University (JD) |