Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)

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1 Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) Sinema represented Arizona's 9th district in the House from In 2018, she was elected US Senator for Arizona for the first time. Prior to her public-service career, she worked as a social worker, attorney, professor, and instructor at the Center for Progressive Leadership, a Washington-based institute that trains activists in progressive policies. In 2010, she was elected to the Arizona State Senate, where she sponsored several bills aimed at curbing Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio s immigration policies, including targeted documentation checks. In Congress, Sinema was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, comprising conservative Democrats, and the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus. She has a center-left voting record. In 2015 and 2016, she did not vote for Nancy Pelosi for majority leader. She has voted with her party 73 percent of the time. In 2017, she voted with President Trump s position roughly half of the time. She is the first openly bisexual Congress member. State Profile Status: Junior Senator Serving with: Jon Kyl (R) Cook PVI: R+5 Capitol Hill Office Building: TBD Room Number: TBD Phone Number: TBD Facebook: TBD Instagram: TBD Twitter: TBD First Elected: 6/11/2018 Birth date: 7/12/1976 Education: PhD, Arizona State University, School of Justice and Social Inquiry, ; JD, Arizona State University, ; MSW, Social Work, Arizona State University, ; Attended, Brigham Young University Family: Divorced Kyrsten Sinema (D) 48% Martha McSally (R) 48% TBD

2 Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) Jon Kyl grew up in Nebraska, the son of Congressman John Henry Kyl. He moved to Arizona to attend the University of Arizona, where he earned both his undergraduate and law degrees. Kyl worked as a lawyer and lobbyist before his election to the US House of Representatives in In 1994, Kyl was elected to the US Senate and eventually served as the Senate Minority Whip from 2007 until his retirement, in In the Senate, Kyl served on the Judiciary Committee, the Finance Committee and the Deficit Reduction Committee. He is considered to be a strong and reliably conservative voice in the Senate. Following the death of Sen. John McCain (R- AZ), Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) appointed Kyl to hold the empty Senate seat until the 2020 election. Kyl has signaled that he potentially will only serve until the end of the 115th Congress (January 2, 2019), and that he definitely will not seek reelection in State Profile Status: Senior Senator Serving with: Kyrsten Sinema (D) Cook PVI: R+5 Capitol Hill Office Building: Dirksen Room Number: G12 Phone Number: (202) Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: First Elected: 4/9/2018 Party: Republican Birth date: 4/25/1942 Education: University of Arizona, B.A., 1964; LL.B., 1966 Family: Spouse: Caryll Louise Collins, 2 children ; 7 grandchildren 2006 General Jon Kyl (R) 53% Jim Pedersen (D) 44% Armed Services Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Indian Affairs

3 Rep. Tom O'Halleran (D-AZ-1) Tom O Halleran was born in 1946 in Chicago, IL and grew up on a dairy farm. He began serving as a police officer in 1966 and later became sergeant in a special operations unit. He received three department commendations and other awards. In 1979, O Halleran became a government bond trader and served two terms on the Chicago Board of Trade s executive board of directors as chair and vice-chair of the finance, floor operations and planning committees. O Halleran retired in Arizona where he became involved in local politics. He advocated for natural resource preservation in the state legislature. He was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2001, served three terms, then became a state senator in O Halleran served as vice-chair and chair of the Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee in the Arizona House of Representatives, and was a member of Education K-12; Ways and Means; Transportation, Counties and Municipalities; and Environment. In the state Senate, O Halleran served as vicechair and chair of the Higher Education Committee. In 2014, he changed his registration from Republican to Independent, blaming the party s inability to legislate on education, water and child-welfare problems. District: 1st Northeast Arizona: Flagstaff, Navajo Nation Cook PVI: R+2 Capitol Hill Office Building: Cannon Room Number: 126 Phone Number: (202) First Elected: 8/11/2016 Birth date: 1/24/1946 Education: Attended, DePaul University, ; Attended, Lewis University, Family: Spouse: Pat, 3 children ; 3 grandchildren Tom O'Halleran (D) 54% Wendy Rogers (R) 46% Agriculture Armed Services

4 Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ-2) Kirkpatrick majored in Asian studies at the University of Arizona, where she also received her law degree. In 1980, Coconino County elected Kirkpatrick as its first woman deputy county attorney, and she later served as city attorney for Sedona, Arizona. Kirkpatrick is a former representative from Arizona's first congressional district. She lost her first reelection campaign in the 2010 midterms, but regained her seat in a close 2012 race. In 2016 she unsuccessfully challenged Republican Sen. John McCain for his U.S. Senate seat. After Republican Rep. Martha McSally announced she would run for Sen. Jeff Flake's open seat, Kirkpatrick announced she would run to fill the open second district seat, which encompasses most of Tucson. District: 2nd Southeast Arizona: Tucson, Cochise County Cook PVI: R+1 Capitol Hill Office Building: TBD Room Number: TBD Phone Number: TBD Facebook: TBD Instagram: TBD Twitter: TBD First Elected: 6/11/2018 Birth date: 3/24/1950 Education: JD, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, 1979; BA, University of Arizona, 1972 Family: Spouse: Roger; 4 Children Ann Kirkpatrick (D) 54% Lea Marquez Peterson (R) 46% TBD

5 Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-3) Raúl Grijalva, representative of Arizona s 3rd district, is one of the House s most liberal members. He grew up in Tucson, as the son of a guest worker who emigrated from Mexico in Grijalva graduated from the University of Arizona and has lived in the city all of his life, involving himself very much in the immigrant community on the city s southwest side. Having previously served on the Pima County Board of Supervisors, Grijalva ran to be Arizona s 7th congressional district representative, gaining a 20-point victory. In office, he worked to defend underrepresented voices, especially those of immigrants and workers with unlivable wages. Grijalva was widely mentioned in 2008 as a possible nominee for interior secretary and was supported by several national Hispanic organizations and then- Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV); however, Obama announced Dick Cheney as his choice. In 2014, Grijalva was elected as Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, strengthening his platform of progressive environmental views. Grijalva also serves on the Committee of Education and Warfare, is the Co-Chair on the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. District: 3rd Southwest Arizona: Yuma, Nogales Cook PVI: D+13 Capitol Hill Office Building: Longworth Room Number: 1511 Phone Number: (202) Instagram: First Elected: 5/11/2002 Birth date: 2/19/1948 Education: BA, Sociology, University of Arizona, 1987 Family: Spouse: Ramona, 3 children Raul Grijalva (D) 63% Nicolas Pierson (R) 37% Education and the Workforce Natural Resources