The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (or, less formally, Senate Finance Committee) is a standing committee of the United States Senate. The Committee concerns itself with matters relating to taxation and other revenue measures generally, and those relating to the insular possessions; bonded debt of the United States; customs, collection districts, and ports of entry and delivery; deposit of public moneys; general revenue sharing; health programs under the Social Security Act (notably Medicare and Medicaid) and health programs financed by a specific tax or trust fund; national social security; reciprocal trade agreements; tariff and import quotas, and related matters thereto; and the transportation of dutiable goods. It is considered to be one of the most powerful committees in Congress.

History

The Committee on Finance is one of the original committees established in the Senate. First created on December 11, 1815, as a select committee and known as the Committee on Finance and an [sic] Uniform National Currency, it was formed to alleviate economic issues arising from the War of 1812. On December 10, 1816 the Senate officially created the Committee on Finance as a standing committee. Originally, the Committee had power over tariffs, taxation, banking and currency issues and appropriations. Under this authority the committee played an influential role in the most heated topics of the era; including numerous tariffs issues and the Bank War. The committee was also influential in the creation of the Department of Interior in 1849. Under the Chairmanship of William Pitt Fessenden, the committee played a decisive role during the Civil War. Appropriating all funds for the war effort as well as raising enough funds to finance the war through tariffs and the nation's first income tax. Additionally, the committee produced the Legal Tender Act of 1862, the nation's first reliance on paper currency.

In 1865 the House of Representatives created an Appropriations Committee to relieve the burden from the Committee on Ways and Means. The Senate followed this example by forming the Appropriations Committee in 1867.

Despite the loss of one of its signature duties the committee continued to play a prominent role in the major issues of the nation. The committee was at the center of the debate over the silver question in the latter half of the 19th Century. Passage of the Bland-Allison Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act were attempts to remedy the demand for silver, though the silver cause would eventually fail by the end of the century. The committee also continued to play a role in the debate over income taxes. The repeal of the Civil War income taxes in the 1870s would eventually be raised in 1894 with the passage of a new income tax law. The Supreme Court's decision in ''Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company'' ruled the income tax as unconstitutional, since it was not based on apportionment. The fight for an income tax finally culminated with the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909. In order to pass the new tariff Senate leaders, including Chairman Nelson Aldrich, allowed for a Constitutional Amendment to be passed. Four years later the 16th Amendment was officially ratified and in 1913 the nation's first peacetime income tax was instituted.

Around that same time the committee lost jurisdiction over banking and currency issues to the newly created Committee on Banking and Currency. The committee did gain jurisdiction over veterans’ benefits when it successfully passed the War Risk Insurance Act of 1917. The act shifted pensions from gratuities to benefits and which served as one of the first life insurance programs created under the federal government.

The Finance Committee continued to play an increasingly important role in the lives of the nation's veterans. The committee helped to consolidate the veteran bureaucracy by streamlining the various responsibilities into a Veterans' Bureau which ultimately would become the Veterans' Administration. In 1924 the committee passed a "Bonus Bill" for World War I veterans which compensated veterans of that war for their service. These series of increasing and providing better benefits for veterans reached a crescendo in 1944 with the passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act. Senator Bennett "Champ" Clark, who served as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Veterans, assured smooth sailing of the bill through the Senate. The bill not only ended the usual demands from returning veterans which had been seen in nearly every war America had participated in. But also provided the most generous benefits that veterans had ever received, including continuing education, loans and unemployment insurance.

Not all Finance Committee legislation was as well received as the G.I. Bill. At the beginning of the Great Depression the committee passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The act greatly increased tariffs and had a negative effect on the nation's economy. Following traditional economic practices the members of the committee, including Chairman Reed Smoot, felt that protection of American businesses was required in order to buoy them during the dire economic times. The effort backfired and the economic situation worsened. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff would eventually be replaced by the Reciprocal Tariff Act of 1934 which authorized the President to negotiate trade agreements. This act not only set up the trade policy system as it exists today but also effectively transferred trade making policy from the Congress to the President.

The committee also played an important role in two major acts created under the New Deal. The committee received jurisdiction over the National Industrial Recovery Act because of tax code changes in the bill. The new bureaucracy was President Roosevelt's attempt to stimulate the economy and promote jobs for unemployed Americans while also regulating businesses. The National Recovery Administration would ultimately fail as it lost public support but the act served as a springboard to the Wagner Act and the National Labor Board.

Probably the single biggest, and by far one of the most lasting, piece of legislation enacted by the Finance Committee during the New Deal was the Social Security Act. Once again the committee received jurisdiction owing to the payroll taxes that would be enacted to pay for the new program. The act was the first effort by the federal government to provide benefits to the elderly and the unemployed. The act greatly enhanced the economic welfare of many elderly Americans.

In 1981, a Senate Resolution required the printing of the History of the Committee on Finance.

Role

The role of the Committee on Finance is very similar to that of the House Committee on Ways and Means. The one exception in area of jurisdiction is that the Committee on Finance has jurisdiction over both Medicare and Medicaid, while the House Ways and Means Committee only has jurisdiction over Medicare. (The House Energy and Commerce Committee has jurisdiction over Medicaid.) The other difference in terms of power is that all revenue raising measures must originate in the House giving the Ways and Means committee a slight edge in setting tax policy. In addition to having jurisdiction over legislation the Committee has extensive oversight powers. It has authority to investigate, review and evaluate existing laws, and the agencies that implement them.

Due to the Committee's wide jurisdiction, it is often considered an influential committee. A wide array of Senators with differing policy concerns seek membership on the Committee because of its role in setting tax, trade, and health policy.

Members, 112th Congress

The Committee is chaired by Democrat Max Baucus, of Montana, and the Ranking Member is Republican Orrin G. Hatch of Utah.

{| class=wikitable ! Majority ! Minority |- | valign=top |

Max Baucus, Montana, ''Chairman''

John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia

Kent Conrad, North Dakota

Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico

John F. Kerry, Massachusetts

Ron Wyden, Oregon

Charles E. Schumer, New York

Debbie Stabenow, Michigan

Maria Cantwell, Washington

Bill Nelson, Florida

Robert Menendez, New Jersey

Thomas R. Carper, Delaware

Benjamin L. Cardin, Maryland

| valign=top |

Orrin G. Hatch, Utah, ''Ranking Minority Member''

Chuck Grassley, Iowa

Olympia J. Snowe, Maine

Jon Kyl, Arizona

Mike Crapo, Idaho

Pat Roberts, Kansas

Michael B. Enzi, Wyoming

John Cornyn, Texas

Tom Coburn, Oklahoma

John Thune, South Dakota

Richard Burr, North Carolina

|}

Sources: ;

Subcommittees

The committee has six subcommittees. {| class=wikitable ! Subcommittee ! Chair ! Ranking Member |- | Health Care | Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) | Chuck Grassley (R-IA) |- | Taxation and IRS Oversight | Kent Conrad (D-ND) | Jon Kyl (R-AZ) |- | Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure | Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) | John Cornyn (R-TX) |- | International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness | Ron Wyden (D-OR) | John Thune (R-SD) |- | Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy | Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) | Tom Coburn (R-OK) |- | Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth | Bill Nelson (D-FL) | Mike Crapo (R-ID) |}

Chairmen, 1815-present

{| class=wikitable ! Chairman !! Party !! State !! Years |- | George W. Campbell || Democratic-Republican || Tennessee || 1815–1818 |- | John Wayles Eppes || Democratic-Republican || Virginia || 1818–1819 |- | Nathan Sanford || Democratic-Republican || New York || 1819–1821 |- | John Holmes || Democratic-Republican || Maine || 1821–1822 |- | Walter Lowrie || Democratic-Republican || Pennsylvania || 1822–1823 |- | Samuel Smith || Crawford Republican, Jacksonian || Maryland || 1823–1833 |- | Daniel Webster | Anti-Jacksonian || Massachusetts || 1833–1836 |- | Silas Wright || Jacksonian, Democratic || New York || 1836–1841 |- | Henry Clay || Whig || Kentucky || 1841 |- | George Evans || Whig || Maine || 1841–1845 |- | Levi Woodbury || Democratic || New Hampshire || 1845 |- | John C. Calhoun || Democratic || South Carolina || 1845–1846 |- | Dixon H. Lewis || Democratic || Alabama || 1846–1847 |- | Charles G. Atherton || Democratic || New Hampshire || 1847–1849 |- | Daniel S. Dickinson || Democratic || New York || 1849–1850 |- | Robert M. T. Hunter || Democratic || Virginia || 1850–1861 |- | James A. Pearce || Democratic || Maryland || 1861 |- | William P. Fessenden || Republican || Maine || 1861–1864 |- | John Sherman || Republican || Ohio || 1864–1865 |- | William P. Fessenden || Republican || Maine || 1865–1867 |- | John Sherman || Republican || Ohio || 1867–1877 |- | Justin Smith Morrill || Republican || Vermont || 1877–1879 |- | Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. || Democratic || Delaware || 1879–1881 |- | Justin Smith Morrill || Republican || Vermont || 1881–1893 |- | Daniel W. Voorhees || Democratic || Indiana || 1893–1895 |- | Justin Smith Morrill || Republican || Vermont || 1895–1898 |- | Nelson W. Aldrich || Republican || Rhode Island || 1898–1911 |- | Boies Penrose || Republican || Pennsylvania || 1911–1913 |- | Furnifold M. Simmons || Democratic || North Carolina || 1913–1919 |- | Boies Penrose || Republican || Pennsylvania || 1919–1921 |- | Porter J. McCumber || Republican || North Dakota || 1921–1923 |- | Reed Smoot || Republican || Utah || 1923–1933 |- | Pat Harrison || Democratic || Mississippi || 1933–1941 |- | Walter F. George || Democratic || Georgia || 1941–1947 |- | Eugene D. Millikin || Republican || Colorado || 1947–1949 |- | Walter F. George || Democratic || Georgia || 1949–1953 |- | Eugene D. Millikin || Republican || Colorado || 1953–1955 |- | Harry F. Byrd || Democratic || Virginia || 1955–1965 |- | Russell B. Long || Democratic || Louisiana || 1965–1981 |- | Bob Dole || Republican || Kansas || 1981–1985 |- | Bob Packwood || Republican || Oregon || 1985–1987 |- | Lloyd Bentsen || Democratic || Texas || 1987–1993 |- | Daniel Patrick Moynihan || Democratic || New York || 1993–1995 |- | Bob Packwood || Republican || Oregon || 1995 |- | William V. Roth, Jr. || Republican || Delaware || 1995–2001 |- | Max Baucus || Democratic || Montana || 2001 |- | Chuck Grassley || Republican || Iowa || 2001 |- | Max Baucus || Democratic || Montana || 2001–2003 |- | Chuck Grassley || Republican || Iowa || 2003–2007 |- | Max Baucus || Democratic || Montana || 2007 – present |}

References

External links

Finance.senate.gov Official website

''History of the Committee on Finance; United States Senate (pdf)''. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1981.

Finance Category:Economy of the United States

fr:Comité des finances du Sénat des États-Unis

The Committee on Finance or Finance Committee may refer to:

Board of Finance in New England local government (with varying titles outside Connecticut)

Canadian Senate Standing Committee on National Finance, a standing committee of the Senate of Canada

Committee on Finance (Parliament of Sweden), a committee of the Parliament of Sweden

Finance Committee (Scotland), a committee of the Scottish Parliament

United States Senate Committee on Finance, a standing committee of the United States Senate

Colonel Morris D. Davis (born July 31, 1958) is a United States Air Force officer and lawyer, was appointed to serve as the third Chief Prosecutor in the Guantanamo military commissions. He resigned from the position and retired from active duty in October 2008.

Military career

+ '''Morris Davis's military career
date	rank
1983-1988	Lieutenant/Captain (United States)>Captain
1989-1991	Captain/Major
1991-1992	Major
1992-1995	Major
1995-1997	Lieutenant Colonel
1997-2000	Lieutenant Colonel
2000-2003	Lieutenant Colonel/Colonel
2003-2005	Colonel
January 2005-September 2005	Colonel
September 2005-October 2007	Colonel

Education

+ Morris Davis's educational career
year	degree
1980	Bachelor of science in criminal justice, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina
1983	Juris doctorate, North Carolina Central University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina
1992	Master of laws in military law (concentration in government procurement law), The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia
1992	George Washington University Law School>The National Law Center, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Awards

Davis has received the following awards and recognition.

Outstanding Judge Advocate for Headquarters Air Force in 1990.

Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters

Air Force Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters

Air Force Achievement Medal with one oak leaf cluster

Southwest Asia Service Medal

Guantanamo service

Unlike his predecessors, Fred Borch and Robert L. Swann, Davis has been a visible public figure. His statements have triggered controversy.

Questionable claims

A National Post article published January 10, 2006 contained extensive quotes from Davis's arguments before the commission, including at one in which Davis said: ''"Thanks to the American medics who stepped over their dead friend and tended to Mr. Khadr, he's alive today,"''

SFC Christopher Speer, a Special Forces medic, was fatally wounded along with two coalition forces, and multiple U.S. forces were wounded and evacuated as a result of the firefight (U.S. v Omar Khadr, Nov 2005). Though medics did not specifically step over Speer's body to tend to Khadr's wounds, two other dead coalition forces were on the ground as Khadr was receiving treatment and evacuation. SFC Speer was also evacuated from the scene and died in a hospital ten days after the firefight.

Davis also asserted that Sergeant Layne Morris was wounded by the same grenade that mortally wounded Speer. But at least one detailed newspaper account described Morris being wounded prior to the aerial bombardment, four hours prior to Speer's wounding.

Comments on the character of the suspects and their attorneys

Khadr's attorney, Muneer Ahmad of American University, accused Colonel Davis of ethical misconduct for referring to Khadr as a terrorist and a murderer during the January 10 press conference. Ahmad asked the Presiding Officer to sanction Colonel Davis for the comments, but the presiding officer found the comments were fair and balanced given repeated negative out of court statements Ahmad made for months prior to the hearing. When asked why the prosecution had finally broken its silence, Davis said:

On February 28, 2006 Davis spoke out again regarding the commissions, saying:

Davis has also challenged military counsel for Australian detainee David Matthew Hicks by threatening prosecution of Major Michael Mori, Hicks's detailed lawyer, for violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Mori responded "Are they trying to intimidate me?"

"The Guantánamo I Know"

On June 26, 2007 an op-ed by Davis, entitled "The Guantanamo I know", was published in the ''New York Times''.

Supreme court to hear challenges to the Military Commissions Act

In addition to authorizing military commissions similar to those the Supreme Court overturned the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was intended to close off all the remaining writs of habeas corpus. On June 29, 2007 the Supreme Court agreed to hear outstanding habeas corpus, opening up the possibility that they might overturn some or all of the Military Commissions Act.

Davis called the Supreme Court's intention to review the MCA "meddling":

Resignation as Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay

In October 2007 Colonel Davis resigned from his position as Chief Prosecutor and became the Head of the Air Force Judiciary stating that "The guy who said waterboarding is A-okay I was not going to take orders from. I quit", hours after he was informed that controversial General Counsel William Haynes would be his superior. He also charged that there was meddling from the Pentagon, and claimed this presented serious conflicts of interest:

Davis states that he was denied an end-of-tour medal for his two years at Guantanamo because he resigned and later spoke out about problems in the Pentagon's Office of Military Commissions. Davis stated about the medal denial, "I tell the truth, and I get labeled as having served dishonorably. I'm very concerned about the chilling effect . . . on the process".

Davis has frequently spoken out against the Commissions, since his resignation.

Post-military career

Davis was named the head of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division of the Congressional Research Service in December 2008; and was fired from this job in late November or early December 2009. This occurred because of an op-ed Davis wrote in the ''Wall Street Journal''. Davis criticized a preliminary report from the inter-agency review team President Obama authorized for proposing looser judicial standards when the suspects faced more serious charges.

Davis wrote: ''"The administration must choose. Either federal courts or military commissions, but not both, for the detainees that deserve to be prosecuted and punished for their past conduct."''

See also

Robert Preston

John Carr

Carrie Wolf

Fred Borch

Stuart Couch

Darrel Vandeveld

References

External links

Retired colonel fights Library of Congress over firing December 6, 2010

Gitmo detainees were exploited for intelligence

U.S. v Omar Khadr (.pdf), ''US Department of Defense'', November 2005

Official biography (.pdf), ''US Department of Defense''

Video

Morris Davis interview from ''Democracy Now!'', July 16, 2008

Category:Guantanamo Military Commission Prosecutors Category:United States Air Force officers Category:American whistleblowers Category:North Carolina Central University alumni Category:People from North Carolina Category:1958 births Category:Living people Category:Appalachian State University alumni Category:George Washington University Law School alumni

name	Douglas W. Elmendorf
order	8th
office	Director of the Congressional Budget Office
term start	January 22, 2009
president	Barack Obama
predecessor	Peter R. Orszag
alma mater	Princeton University, A.B. Harvard University, A.M., Ph.D. }}

Douglas W. Elmendorf (born 1961) is an American economist who is currently the Director of the Congressional Budget Office under Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner. He was a Brookings Institution senior fellow from 2007 to 2009, and was a director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings. Joining the Congressional Budget Office in late December 2008, Elmendorf is responsible for providing estimates of the cost of legislation on the federal budget.

Biography

Education

Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Elmendorf spent his early career as an academic and educator. He went to Princeton University as an undergraduate, studying economics, and then headed to Harvard University to obtain his master’s and Ph.D in the same subject. After graduating in 1989, he stayed at Harvard for five years, working closely with economics professor Martin Feldstein, the director of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan.

Career Work

In 1993, Elmendorf moved to public life, working for the Congressional Budget Office office for the first time. He spent a year as an associate analyst before joining full-time in 1994 as a principal analyst where Elmendorf focused on health-care issues and the economic effects of budget deficits. Working under Director Robert D. Reischauer, Elmendorf worked on a team that concluded President Bill Clinton's health reform package would cost much more than originally thought. This analysis helped cripple Clinton's attempt to reform health care.

Elmendorf only stayed a year at the CBO as a principal analyst before heading to the Federal Reserve Board as an economist while Alan Greenspan headed it. In 1998, his travels through the financial departments of the federal government continued, as Elmendorf moved to the Council of Economic Advisers, working as a senior economist under Director Janet Yellen. After staying at the CEA for a year, Elmendorf then joined the United States Treasury Department as deputy assistant secretary for economic policy, working under Clinton Treasury Secretary of the United States Lawrence Summers. When George W. Bush took office, Elmendorf moved back to the Fed as a senior economist and in 2002, he got a promotion to chief of the macroeconomics analysis team, leading a group of 30 economists and researchers as they forecasted inflation rates and labor markets.

In 2007, Elmendorf began working for the well-known economic think-tank the Brookings Institution, co-editing the twice-yearly publication “Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.” In 2008, Jason Furman, the director of the Brookings’ group known as the Hamilton Project left to join the Obama campaign. Elmendorf replaced him as director of the Project, a forum for economic policy discussion that was created by Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin — an advocate of free trade and a small deficit.

Testifying before the the House Budget Committee in June 2011 Director Elmendorf said that "uncertainty about federal policy is diminishing household and business spending and that uncertainty covers a whole set of policies: It covers tax policy, it covers regulatory policy and it covers health policy." He noted that New figures released 30 June 2011 by the CBO show debt rising to 190 percent of the gross domestic product by 2035. Economists have warned that exceeding 90 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) is a prescription for a debt crisis. "The current level of debt is reducing our output, our incomes relative to what would be the case if we had a lower level of debt, leaving aside the effects of this particular recession, which complicate that," Elmendorf said. As of 2011 debt to GDP levels are 70%.

In August 2011 the CBO noted a dismal outlook of the nation’s budget and economy, crystallizing the challenges Congress faces this fall in reducing deficits and increasing employment. CBO projects a $1.28 trillion deficit for the fiscal year, and total deficits over the next 10 years of $3.5 trillion. Gross federal debt is expected to rise from $14.8 trillion this year to $21.3 trillion in 2021, CBO said. “A great deal of the pain of this economic downturn still lies ahead of us,” Director Elmendorf said at a Wednesday press conference after the report’s release. He said the debt-ceiling deal “makes a real difference, so I guess that’s good news.” He then added: “I think the challenges that remain are very large.”

References

Category:American economists Category:Assistants to the President of the United States Category:Living people Category:People from Poughkeepsie, New York Category:1961 births

name	Lena Taylor
state	Wisconsin| state_senate Wisconsin
district	4th
term start	January 3, 2005
preceded	Gwen Moore
succeeded	Incumbent
state assembly2	Wisconsin
district2	18th
term start2	April 2003
term end2	January 2005
party	Democratic
birth date	July 25, 1966
birth place	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
profession	Attorney }}

Lena C. Taylor (born July 25, 1966) is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 4th District since 2005. She previously served in the Wisconsin Assembly, representing the 18th District from 2003 through 2005.

Early life, education and career

Taylor is a life-long resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a graduate of Rufus King High School in 1984. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1990, and a law degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1993. As an undergraduate, she joined Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

After law school, Taylor worked as a public defender for more than two years, representing indigent citizens in need of legal services. In 1996, she opened Taylor and Associates Law Office, a general practice firm on the north side of Milwaukee.

Wisconsin legislature

Taylor was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in a special election in April 2003 and was subsequently elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in 2004. When Democrats were elected to the majority in the Wisconsin State Senate in November 2006, Taylor was chosen to Chair the Committee on Judiciary and Corrections, on which she had served for the preceding two years. In January 2007, Taylor was selected by the Majority Leader to serve on the powerful Joint Committee on Finance for the second time.

In addition to the Committee on Judiciary and Corrections and the Joint Committee on Finance, Taylor currently serves on the Joint Committee on Retirement Systems, the Legislative Council Committee on Affirmative Action, the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA), the Marquette Interchange Labor Development Committee, the Legislative Council Committee on Sex Offender Placement, Judicial Council, Sentencing Commission, and the Senate Committee on Health, Human Services, Insurance, and Job Creation. During her first term in the Senate, Taylor focused intently on improving education in Milwaukee, working to create equity in school funding and to promote a positive learning environment for children.

2011 Wisconsin protests

During the protests in Wisconsin, Taylor, along with the 13 other Democratic State Senators, left the state to deny the State Senate a quorum on Governor Scott Walker's "Budget Repair" legislation which repealed collective bargaining on benefits for public employees.

Taylor made statements comparing Walker's proposed legislation to Adolf Hitler's plan to eliminate unions. On her twitter account she wrote ""LIKE HITLER in 1933, WALKER is busting unions."

As a result of her stance on the issue, Taylor (along with seven other Democratic senators) was subject to a recall attempt. However, her opponents were only able to obtain two signatures for her recall, as of April 7. Experts say that since Taylor is in a strongly partisan senate district, she is unlikely to be defeated in a recall election.

Political campaigns

In 2008, she ran for County Executive of Milwaukee County but lost to Republican Scott Walker, who was elected Governor of Wisconsin in 2010.

Electoral history

2004 State Senate Primary Lena C. Taylor - 10,042 Johnnie E. Morris** - 7,735 James White - 3, 633

2004 Race for State Senate Lena Taylor - 99% (No Challenger)

2008 Race for Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker - 59% Lena Taylor - 41%

Personal life

Taylor and her son live on Milwaukee's northwest side.

Taylor is a member of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, a member of the advisory board for the Milwaukee Boy Scouts, a member of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Alumni Association, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. Taylor is also involved with the Milwaukee Unity Caucus, the Milawukee Child Welfare Partnership Council, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee AIDS Resource Center, the NAACP, and the Milwaukee Urban League, among others.

References

External links

Senator Lena Taylor at the Wisconsin State Legislature

*constituency site

4th Senate District, Senator Taylor in the Wisconsin Blue Book (2005–2006)

Campaign 2008 campaign contributions at ''Wisconsin Democracy Campaign''

Category:1966 births Category:Living people Category:People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin Category:Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly Category:Wisconsin State Senators Category:University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni Category:Women state legislators in Wisconsin Category:African American politicians Category:Wisconsin Democrats Category:African American women in politics