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Paul has held a state-issued medical license since moving to Bowling Green in 1993.<ref name="lcj-2010">{{cite web|last=Gerth|first=Joseph|title=Rand Paul's ophthalmology certification not recognized by national clearinghouse|publisher=''The Courier-Journal''|date=June 14, 2010|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courier_journal/access/2059232451.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+14%2C+2010&author=Joseph+Gerth&pub=Courier+-+Journal&edition=&startpage=n%2Fa&desc=Rand+Paul%27s+ophthalmology+certification+not+recognized+by+national+clearinghouse|accessdate=July 2, 2010}}</ref> He received his first job from Dr. John Downing of Downing McPeak Vision Centers, which brought him to Bowling Green after completing his residency. Paul worked for Downing for about five years before parting ways. Afterwards, he went to work at the Gilbert Graves Clinic, a private medical group in Bowling Green, for 10&nbsp;years before creating his own practice in a converted one-story house across the street from Downing's office.<ref name="AVB"/> After his election to the U.S. Senate, he merged his practice with Downing's medical practice.<ref>{{cite web|last =Harmon|first =Hayley|title =Rand Paul's Practice Merges with Downing-McPeak|publisher =[[WBKO]]|date =January 5, 2011|url =http://www.wbko.com/home/headlines/Rand_Pauls_Practice_Merges_with_Downing-McPeak_112968089.html|accessdate =March 12, 2011}}</ref> Paul has faced two malpractice lawsuits between 1993 and 2010; he was cleared in one case while the other was settled for $50,000.<ref name="AVB">{{cite web|last =Van Benschoten|first =Amanda|title =Rand Paul's political rise surprises even those in Bowling Green|publisher =''The Courier-Journal''|date =July 5, 2010|url =http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100705/NEWS0106/7050340/Rand-Paul-s-political-rise-surprises-even-those-Bowling-Green|accessdate =March 6, 2011}}</ref> Regardless, his medical work has been praised by Downing and he has medical privileges at two Bowling Green hospitals.<ref name="lcj-2010"/><ref name="AVB"/> Paul specializes in cataract and glaucoma surgeries, LASIK procedures, and corneal transplants.<ref name="JR"/> As a member of the Bowling Green Noon [[Lions Club]], Paul founded the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic to help provide eye surgery and exams for those who cannot afford to pay.<ref name=mt>{{Cite news|url=http://www.kulr8.com/news/state/13944012.html|publisher=[[KULR-TV]]|date=January 21, 2008|accessdate=April 4, 2009|agency=Associated Press|title=Son of long-shot presidential hopeful to visit Montana|location=[[Billings, Montana]]}}</ref> Rand Paul won the Melvin Jones Fellow Award for Dedicated Humanitarian Services from the Lions Club International Foundation for his work establishing the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Thomason|first1=Andrew|title=Rand Paul’s balancing act|url=http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/rand-paul-s-balancing-act/article_3134ce1f-d32b-5098-8127-2a8f8b9dd592.html|accessdate=15 August 2014|publisher=Park City Daily News|date=5 September 2010}}</ref>
Paul has held a state-issued medical license since moving to Bowling Green in 1993.<ref name="lcj-2010">{{cite web|last=Gerth|first=Joseph|title=Rand Paul's ophthalmology certification not recognized by national clearinghouse|publisher=''The Courier-Journal''|date=June 14, 2010|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courier_journal/access/2059232451.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+14%2C+2010&author=Joseph+Gerth&pub=Courier+-+Journal&edition=&startpage=n%2Fa&desc=Rand+Paul%27s+ophthalmology+certification+not+recognized+by+national+clearinghouse|accessdate=July 2, 2010}}</ref> He received his first job from Dr. John Downing of Downing McPeak Vision Centers, which brought him to Bowling Green after completing his residency. Paul worked for Downing for about five years before parting ways. Afterwards, he went to work at the Gilbert Graves Clinic, a private medical group in Bowling Green, for 10&nbsp;years before creating his own practice in a converted one-story house across the street from Downing's office.<ref name="AVB"/> After his election to the U.S. Senate, he merged his practice with Downing's medical practice.<ref>{{cite web|last =Harmon|first =Hayley|title =Rand Paul's Practice Merges with Downing-McPeak|publisher =[[WBKO]]|date =January 5, 2011|url =http://www.wbko.com/home/headlines/Rand_Pauls_Practice_Merges_with_Downing-McPeak_112968089.html|accessdate =March 12, 2011}}</ref> Paul has faced two malpractice lawsuits between 1993 and 2010; he was cleared in one case while the other was settled for $50,000.<ref name="AVB">{{cite web|last =Van Benschoten|first =Amanda|title =Rand Paul's political rise surprises even those in Bowling Green|publisher =''The Courier-Journal''|date =July 5, 2010|url =http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100705/NEWS0106/7050340/Rand-Paul-s-political-rise-surprises-even-those-Bowling-Green|accessdate =March 6, 2011}}</ref> Regardless, his medical work has been praised by Downing and he has medical privileges at two Bowling Green hospitals.<ref name="lcj-2010"/><ref name="AVB"/> Paul specializes in cataract and glaucoma surgeries, LASIK procedures, and corneal transplants.<ref name="JR"/> As a member of the Bowling Green Noon [[Lions Club]], Paul founded the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic to help provide eye surgery and exams for those who cannot afford to pay.<ref name=mt>{{Cite news|url=http://www.kulr8.com/news/state/13944012.html|publisher=[[KULR-TV]]|date=January 21, 2008|accessdate=April 4, 2009|agency=Associated Press|title=Son of long-shot presidential hopeful to visit Montana|location=[[Billings, Montana]]}}</ref> Rand Paul won the Melvin Jones Fellow Award for Dedicated Humanitarian Services from the Lions Club International Foundation for his work establishing the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Thomason|first1=Andrew|title=Rand Paul’s balancing act|url=http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/rand-paul-s-balancing-act/article_3134ce1f-d32b-5098-8127-2a8f8b9dd592.html|accessdate=15 August 2014|publisher=Park City Daily News|date=5 September 2010}}</ref>

Rand Paul has questioned the medical science on the transmission of Ebola.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/13/politics/ron-paul-ebola/index.html |title=Ron Paul vs. Rand Paul on Ebola |last1=Killough |first1=Ashley |date=14 October 2014 |website=www.cnn.com |publisher=CNN |accessdate=14 October 2014}}</ref>


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Not to be confused with Paul Rand.

Rand Paul
Paul in January 2011
United States Senator
from Kentucky
Assumed office
January 3, 2011
Serving with Mitch McConnell
Preceded byJim Bunning
Personal details
Born
Randal Howard Paul

(1963-01-07) January 7, 1963 (age 61)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpouseKelley Ashby Paul (m. 1990)
RelationsRon Paul (father)
Carol Wells Paul (mother)
ChildrenWilliam
Robert
Duncan
ResidenceBowling Green, Kentucky
Alma materBaylor University
Duke University (M.D.)
ProfessionOphthalmologist
WebsiteSenator Rand Paul

Randal Howard "Rand" Paul (born January 7, 1963) is an American ophthalmologist and politician who serves as the junior United States Senator for Kentucky, in office since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party and the son of former U.S. Representative and presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas.

A graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine, Paul began practicing ophthalmology in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1993 and established his own clinic in December 2007. He became active in politics and founded Kentucky Taxpayers United in 1994, of which he is still chairman.[2] He first received national attention in 2008 when making political speeches on behalf of his father, who was campaigning for the Republican Party's nomination for president. In 2010, Paul ran for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky, defeating Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson in the Republican primary. He subsequently defeated the Democratic nominee, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, in the general election.

Paul, a member of the Tea Party movement, supports a widespread reduction in federal spending and taxation, and is often described as a libertarian, although he disagrees with this title.[3] Unlike his more stridently non-interventionist father, Paul concedes a role for American armed forces abroad, including permanent foreign military bases.[4][5] He has garnered attention for his political positions, often clashing with both Republicans and Democrats.[6] With increasing visibility and straw poll support, Paul is seen as a likely Republican frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election. He has expressed interest in the race, but has not formally announced if he plans to run.

Early life and education

Randal Howard Paul[7] was born on January 7, 1963, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Carol (née Wells) and Ron Paul. His father is a physician and former U.S. Representative of Texas' 14th congressional district. The middle child of five, his siblings are Ronald "Ronnie" Paul Jr., Lori Paul Pyeatt, Robert Paul, and Joy Paul-LeBlanc.[8] Paul was baptized in the Episcopal Church[9] and identified as a practicing Christian as a teenager.[10] Despite his father's libertarian views and strong support for individual rights,[10][11] the novelist Ayn Rand was not the inspiration for his first name. Growing up, he went by "Randy",[12] but his wife shortened it to "Rand."[10][13][14]

The Paul family moved to Lake Jackson, Texas, in 1968,[12][15] where he was raised[16][17] and where his father began a medical practice and for an extent of time was the only obstetrician in Brazoria County.[12][15] When he was 13, his father was elected to the United States House of Representatives.[18] That same year, Paul attended the 1976 Republican National Convention, where his father headed Ronald Reagan's Texas delegation.[19] The younger Paul often spent summer vacations interning in his father's congressional office.[20] In his teenage years, Paul studied the Austrian economists that his father respected, as well as the writings of Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand.[12] Paul went to Brazoswood High School and was on the swimming team and played defensive back on the football team.[10][16] Paul attended Baylor University from fall 1981 to summer 1984. He was enrolled in the honors program at Baylor, and had scored approximately in the 90th percentile on the Medical College Admission Test.[21] During the time he spent at Baylor, he was involved in the swim team and the Young Conservatives of Texas and was a member of a secret organization known as the NoZe Brotherhood.[22] Paul also regularly contributed to The Baylor Lariat.[19] Paul left Baylor early when he was accepted into the Duke University School of Medicine, where he earned an M.D. in 1988, and completed his residency in 1993.[21]

Medical career

Paul has held a state-issued medical license since moving to Bowling Green in 1993.[23] He received his first job from Dr. John Downing of Downing McPeak Vision Centers, which brought him to Bowling Green after completing his residency. Paul worked for Downing for about five years before parting ways. Afterwards, he went to work at the Gilbert Graves Clinic, a private medical group in Bowling Green, for 10 years before creating his own practice in a converted one-story house across the street from Downing's office.[24] After his election to the U.S. Senate, he merged his practice with Downing's medical practice.[25] Paul has faced two malpractice lawsuits between 1993 and 2010; he was cleared in one case while the other was settled for $50,000.[24] Regardless, his medical work has been praised by Downing and he has medical privileges at two Bowling Green hospitals.[23][24] Paul specializes in cataract and glaucoma surgeries, LASIK procedures, and corneal transplants.[13] As a member of the Bowling Green Noon Lions Club, Paul founded the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic to help provide eye surgery and exams for those who cannot afford to pay.[26] Rand Paul won the Melvin Jones Fellow Award for Dedicated Humanitarian Services from the Lions Club International Foundation for his work establishing the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic.[27]

Rand Paul has questioned the medical science on the transmission of Ebola.[28]

National Board of Ophthalmology

In 1995, Paul passed the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO) boards on his first attempt and earned board-certification under the ABO for 10 years. In 1997, to protest the ABO's 1992 decision to grandfather in older ophthalmologists and not require them to be recertified every 10 years in order to maintain their status as board-certified practitioners, Paul, along with 200 other ophthalmologists, formed the National Board of Ophthalmology (NBO) to offer an alternative ophthalmology certification system.[29][30] The NBO was incorporated in 1999, but he allowed it to be dissolved in 2000 after not filing the required paperwork with the Kentucky Secretary of State's office. Paul later recreated the board in September 2005, three months before his original 10-year certification from the ABO lapsed. His ABO certification lapsed on December 31, 2005. Paul has since been certified by the NBO,[23] with himself as the organization's president, his wife as vice-president, and his father-in-law as secretary.[31] The ophthalmology board is not officially recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS).[23] The NBO was again dissolved on September 10, 2011.[32]

Political activism

Paul served as the head of the local chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas during his time at Baylor University.[19] In 1984, Paul took a semester off to aid his father's primary challenge to Republican Senator Phil Gramm.[19] While attending Duke Medical School, Paul volunteered for his father's 1988 Libertarian presidential campaign.[20] In response to President Bush breaking his election promise to not raise taxes, Paul founded the North Carolina Taxpayers Union in 1991.[20] In 1994, Paul founded the anti-tax organization Kentucky Taxpayers United (KTU), serving as chair of the organization from its inception. He has often cited his involvement with KTU as the foundation of his involvement with state politics.[33] Described as "ideological and conservative" by the Lexington Herald-Leader, the group considered itself nonpartisan,[34][35] examining Kentucky legislators' records on taxation and spending and encouraging politicians to publicly pledge to vote uniformly against tax increases.[36][37] Paul managed his father's successful 1996 Congressional campaign, in which the elder Paul returned to the House after a twelve-year absence.[19] The elder Paul defeated incumbent Democrat-turned-Republican Greg Laughlin in the Republican primary, despite Laughlin's support from the NRCC and Republican leaders such as Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush.[19]

The Wall Street Journal reported in 2010 that although Paul had told a Kentucky television audience as recently as September 2009 that KTU published ratings each year on state legislators' tax positions and that "we've done that for about 15 years", the group had stopped issuing its ratings and report cards after 2002 and had been legally dissolved by the state in 2000 after failing to file registration documents.[33]

Paul spoke on his father's behalf when his father was campaigning for office,[38] including throughout the elder Paul's run in the 2008 presidential election, during which Rand campaigned door-to-door in New Hampshire[39] and spoke in Boston at a fundraising rally for his father on the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.[40]

In February 2014, Paul joined the Tea Party-affiliated conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks in filing a class-action lawsuit charging that the US government's bulk collection of Americans' phone records metadata is a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution.[41][42][43] Commenting on the lawsuit at a press conference, Paul said, "I’m not against the NSA, I’m not against spying, I’m not against looking at phone records.... I just want you to go to a judge, have an individual’s name and [get] a warrant. That’s what the Fourth Amendment says."[41] He also said there was no evidence the surveillance of phone metadata had stopped terrorism.[41] Critics, including Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz[44] and Steven Aftergood, the director of the American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy,[43] called the lawsuit a political "stunt". Paul's political campaign organization said that the names of members of the public who went to Paul's websites and signed on as potential class-action participants would be available in the organization's database for future campaign use.[41][45] On the announcement of the filing of the lawsuit, Mattie Fein, the spokeswoman for and former wife of attorney Bruce Fein, complained that Fein's intellectual contribution to the lawsuit had been stolen and that he had not been properly paid for his work.[46] Paul's representatives denied the charge, and Fein issued a statement saying that Mattie Fein had not been authorized to speak for him on the matter and that he had in fact been paid for his work on the lawsuit.[46]

Paul is co-author of a book entitled The Tea Party Goes to Washington (2011) with Jack Hunter, also known as the "Southern Avenger."[47][48] Paul is also the author of Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds (2012).[49]

Paul was included in Time magazine's world's most influential people, for 2013 and 2014.[50][51]

Election to U.S. Senate

Main article: United States Senate election in Kentucky, 2010

Primary campaign

Then-U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul speaking with a supporter at a healthcare rally in Louisville, Kentucky in November 2009

At the beginning of 2009, there was an online grassroots movement to draft Paul in a bid to replace beleaguered Republican Kentucky senator Jim Bunning. The news of Paul's potential candidacy became a topic of national interest and was discussed in the Los Angeles Times[52] and locally in the Kentucky press.[53] Paul's father remarked, "Should Senator Bunning decide not to run, I think Rand would make a great U.S. Senator."[54]

On May 1, 2009, Paul officially confirmed that if Bunning, whose fundraising in 2009 matched his poor numbers in opinion polling for the 2010 election,[55] declined to seek a third term, he would almost certainly run in the Republican Party primary to succeed him,[56] and formed an exploratory committee soon after, while still promising to stay out of the race if Bunning ultimately decided to run for reelection. Paul made this announcement on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, though a Kentucky news site first broke the news.[57]

On July 28, 2009, Bunning announced that he would not run for reelection in the face of insufficient fundraising. The announcement left only Paul and Secretary of State Trey Grayson as the remaining candidates for the Republican nomination,[58] with Paul announcing on August 5, 2009 that he would officially run for the U.S. Senate as a Republican. The announcement was made through a series of national TV events, radio, and other programs, as well as newspapers in Kentucky.[59][60][61]

Early fundraising success

On August 20, 2009, Paul's supporters planned a moneybomb to kick off his campaign. The official campaign took in $433,509 in 24 hours. His website reported that this set a new record in Kentucky's political fundraising history in a 24-hour period.[62]

A second "moneybomb" was held on September 23, 2009, to counter a D.C. fundraiser being held for primary opponent Trey Grayson, by 23 Republican United States Senators, 17 of whom voted for the bank bailout.[63] The theme was a UFC "fight" between Paul and "We the People" vs. Trey Grayson and the "D.C. Insiders".[64] The money bomb ended up raising $186,276 for Paul in 24 hours on September 23;[65] bringing Paul's Senate campaign's total raised to over one million. Later in the campaign, Paul claimed his pledge to not take money from lobbyists and Senators who had voted for the bailout was only a "primary pledge";[66] he subsequently held a DC fundraiser with the same Senators who had been the target of the September 23, 2009 "moneybomb". Paul ended up raising some $3 million during the primary period.

Paul's fundraising was aided by his father's network of supporters.[19] After the first of several interviews with Alex Jones, Paul's campaign server crashed due to the high level of donor traffic.[19]

Primary victory

Then-U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul with then-Senator Jim Bunning at a rally in Hebron, Kentucky in November 2010

Although Grayson was considered the frontrunner in July 2009,[67] Paul found success characterizing Grayson as a "career politician" and challenging Grayson's conservatism. Paul ran an ad in February that made an issue out of Grayson's September 2008 admission that he voted for Bill Clinton when he was 20 years old.[68] James Dobson, a Christian evangelical figure, endorsed Grayson on April 26 based on the advice of what Dobson described as "senior members of the GOP", but on May 3 the Paul campaign announced that Dobson had changed his endorsement to Paul[69] after Paul and some Paul supporters had lobbied Dobson insisting on Paul's social conservative bona fides.[70]

On May 18, Paul won the Republican Senatorial primary by a 23.4% margin,[71] meaning he would face the Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, in the November 2 general election.[72]

General campaign

In the 2010 general election, Paul faced Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway. The campaign attracted $8.5 million in contributions from outside groups, of which $6 million was spent to help Paul and $2.5 million to help Conway. This money influx was in addition to the money spent by the candidates themselves: $6 million by Paul and $4.7 million by Conway.[73][74] On June 28, 2010, Paul supporters held their first post-primary online fundraising drive, this time promoted as a "money blast".[75][76]

Paul's campaign got off to a rough start after his comments on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 stirred controversy.[77] Paul stated that he favored 9 out of 10 titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but that had he been a senator during the 1960s, he would have raised some questions on the constitutionality of Title II of the Act.[78] Paul said that he abhors racism, and that he would have marched with Martin Luther King Jr. to repeal Jim Crow Laws. He later released a statement declaring that he would have voted for the Act and stated "unequivocally ... that I will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964".[79][80] Later he generated more controversy by characterizing statements made by Obama Administration officials regarding the BP oil spill cleanup as sounding "un-American".[81]

Paul defeated Conway in the general election with 56% of the vote to 44% for Conway.

U.S. Senate career

112th Congress (2011–13)

Rand Paul being sworn in as a senator by Vice President Joe Biden, along with his family, in the Old Senate Chamber in the United States Capitol building

Paul was sworn in on January 5, 2011 along with his father, marking the first time in congressional history that someone served in the Senate while their parent simultaneously served in the House of Representatives.[82] He was assigned to serve on the Energy and Natural Resources, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Homeland Security and Government Affairs, and Small Business committees.[83] Paul also formed the Senate Tea Party Caucus with Jim DeMint and Mike Lee as its inaugural members.[84] His first legislative proposal was to cut $500 billion from federal spending in one year. This proposal included cutting the Department of Education by 83 percent and the Department of Homeland Security by 43 percent, as well as folding the Department of Energy into the Department of Defense and eliminating the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Seven independent agencies would be eliminated and food stamps would be cut by 30 percent. Under Paul's proposal, defense spending would be reduced by 6.5 percent and international aid would be eliminated.[85] He later proposed a five-year budget plan intended to balance the budget.[86]

In February, Paul was one of two Republicans to vote against extending three key provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act (roving wiretaps, searches of business records, and conducting surveillance of "lone wolves"—individuals not linked to terrorist groups).[87] In May, he remained the last senator opposing the PATRIOT Act, and was ultimately defeated on May 26.[88]

On March 2, Paul was one of nine senators to vote against a stopgap bill that cut $4 billion from the budget and temporarily prevent a government shutdown, citing that it did not cut enough from the budget.[89] One week later, he voted against the Democratic and Republican budget proposals to keep funding the federal government, citing that both bills did not cut enough spending. Both bills failed to pass the Senate.[90] He later voted against stopgap measures on March 17 and April 8, both of which passed the senate.[91] On April 14, He was one of 19 senators to vote against a budget that cut $38.5 billion from the budget and fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year.[92] Paul voiced opposition to U.S. intervention in the Libyan civil war and has criticized President Obama for not gaining congressional consent for Operation Odyssey Dawn.[93] During the debt ceiling crisis, the Senator stated that he would only support raising the debt ceiling if a balanced budget amendment was enacted.[94] Paul was a supporter of the Cut, Cap and Balance Act, which was tabled by Democratic opposition.[95] On August 3, Paul voted against a bill that would raise the debt ceiling.[96]

On September 7, Paul called for a vote of no confidence in U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.[97] Later that month, Paul blocked legislation that would strengthen safety rules for oil and gas pipelines because he stated the bill was not strong enough.[98] In October, Paul blocked a bill that would provide $36 million in benefits for elderly and disabled refugees, saying that he was concerned that it could be used to aid domestic terrorists. This was in response to two alleged terrorists, who came to the United States through a refugee program and were receiving welfare benefits, were arrested in 2011 in Paul's hometown of Bowling Green.[99] Paul lifted his hold on the bill after Democratic leaders promised to hold a Congressional hearing into how individuals are selected for refugee status and request an investigation on how the two suspects were admitted in the country through a refugee program.[100]

113th Congress (2013–15)

For the 113th Congress, Paul was added to the Foreign Relations committee and retained his spot on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Homeland Security and Government Affairs, and Small Business committees.[101]

On March 6–7, 2013, Paul engaged in a talking filibuster to delay voting on the nomination of John O. Brennan as the Director of the CIA. Paul questioned the Obama administration's use of drones and the stated legal justification for their potential use within the United States.

Rand Paul speaking during his filibuster

Paul held the floor for 12 hours and 52 minutes.[102] He ceded to several Republican senators and Democratic senator, Ron Wyden, who generally also questioned drone usage.[103][104] Paul noted his purpose was to challenge drone policy in general and specifically as it related to noncombatants on U.S. soil. He requested a pledge from the Administration that noncombatants would not be targeted on U.S. soil.[105] Attorney General Eric Holder responded that the President is not authorized to deploy extrajudicial punishment without due process, against non combatant citizens. Paul answered that he was "quite happy" with the response.[106] The filibuster was ended with a cloture vote of 81 to 16, and Brennan was confirmed by the Senate with a vote of 63 to 34.[107]

In March 2013, Paul, with Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, threatened another filibuster, this one opposing any legislative proposals to expand federal gun control measures.[108] The filibuster was attempted on April 11, 2013, but was dismissed by cloture, in a 68–31 vote.[109]

Also in March 2013, Paul endorsed fellow Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell's 2014 re-election campaign.[110] McConnell had previously hired Paul's 2010 campaign manager, Jesse Benton, as his own campaign manager.[111] Paul's endorsement was seen as a major win for McConnell in avoiding a challenge in the Republican primary.[110]

In response to Detroit's declaration of bankruptcy, Paul stated he would not allow the government to attempt to bail out Detroit. In a phone interview with Breitbart.com on July 19, 2013, Paul said, "I basically say he is bailing them out over my dead body because we don't have any money in Washington." Paul said he thought a federal bailout would send the wrong message to other cities with financial problems.[112]

In September, Paul stated that the United States should avoid military intervention in the ongoing Syrian civil war.[113] In an op-ed, Paul disputed the Obama administration's claims that the threat of military force caused Syria's government to consider turning over its chemical weapons, instead arguing that the opposition to military action in Syria, and the delay that it caused, led to diplomatic progress.[114]

In October 2013, Paul was the subject of some controversy when it was discovered that he had plagiarized from Wikipedia part of a speech in support of Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli. Referencing the movie Gattaca, Paul quoted almost verbatim from the Wikipedia article about the film without citing the source.[115][116][117] Evidence soon surfaced that Paul had copied passages in a number of his other speeches and published works nearly verbatim from other authors without giving credit to the original sources,[118][119] including in the speech he had given as the Tea Party rebuttal to the president's 2013 State of the Union address and in a three-page-long passage of Paul's book Government Bullies, which was taken directly from an article by the conservative think thank The Heritage Foundation.[120][121] When it became apparent that an op-ed article Paul had published in the Washington Times and testimony he had given before the Senate Judiciary Committee both contained material that was virtually identical to an article that had been published by another author in The Week a few days earlier,[122] the Washington Times said that the newspaper would no longer publish the weekly column Paul had been contributing to the paper.[123] After a week of almost daily news reports of new allegations of plagiarism, Paul said that he was being held to an "unfair standard", but would restructure his office in order to prevent mistakes in the future, if that would be what it would take "to make people leave me the hell alone".[124]

In response to political turmoil in Ukraine in early 2014, Paul initially said that the US should remain mindful of the fact that although the Cold War is over, Russia remains a military power with long-range nuclear missiles. He said that the US should try to maintain a "respectful relationship with Russia" and avoid taking actions that the Russians might view as a provocation, such as seeking to have Ukraine join NATO or otherwise interfering in Russia's relationship with Ukraine.[125] Two weeks later, after the Russian parliament authorized the use of military force in Ukraine[126] and Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered military exercises along Russia's border with Ukraine,[127] Paul began taking a different tone.[128] He wrote: "Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation’s sovereignty and an affront to the international community.... Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation."[129] He said that the US and European allies could retaliate against Russia's military aggression without any need for military action. He urged that the US impose economic sanctions on Russia and resume an effort to build defensive anti-missile installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. He also called for the US to take steps as a counterweight to Russia's strategic influence on Europe's oil and gas supply, such as lifting restrictions on new exploration and drilling for fossil fuels in the United States along with immediate approval of the controversial Keystone Pipeline, which he said would allow the US to ship more oil and gas to Europe if Russia attempts to cut off its own supply to Europe.[129]

Paul played a leading role in blocking a treaty with Switzerland that would enable the IRS to conduct tax evasion probes, arguing that the treaty would infringe upon Americans' privacy.[130]

In response to reports that the CIA infiltrated the computers of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Paul called for the firing of CIA Director John O. Brennan. [131]

Committee assignments

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2016 Presidential politics

Further information: United States presidential election, 2016
Rand Paul speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland on March 14, 2013

In a January 2013 interview, he spoke of a possible 2016 presidential candidacy. While not promising a run, he stated the decision would be made within the next two years. He also indicated his intention to shape GOP politics regardless of a run.[132] He delivered the Tea Party response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on February 13, 2013,[133] while Marco Rubio gave the official Republican response. This prompted some pundits to call that date the start of the 2016 Republican primaries.[134] In March he spoke at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington D.C.,[135] where he won the presidential straw poll with 25% of the votes cast.[136]

His 2013 itinerary reportedly included trips through several early primary states.[137] In April he won the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference poll and the Tennessee Republican Assembly straw poll, taking 39%[138] and 58%[139] respectively. At a Christian Science Monitor–sponsored breakfast that month, he reaffirmed that he was considering a run for the presidency and said no decision would be made before 2014.[140]

Paul again spoke at CPAC in March 2014.[141][142][143] At the peak of his speech Senator Paul stated, "You may think I am talking about electing a Republican. I am not, I am talking about electing lovers of liberty. It isn't good enough to pick the lesser of two evils. We must elect men and women of principle, and conviction and action that will lead us back to greatness."[141][144] The day after his speech he won the presidential straw poll with 31% of the votes cast, nearly triple the votes cast for runner up Senator Ted Cruz with 11%.[145][146][147]

The following month, Paul spoke at the GOP Freedom Summit, an event organized by Americans for Prosperity and Citizens United.[148] The event was attended by several potential presidential candidates.[149] In his speech, he insisted that the GOP has to broaden its appeal in order to grow as a party. To do so, he said it cannot be the party of "fat cats, rich people and Wall Street" and that the conservative movement has never been about rich people or privilege, "we are the middle class", he said. Paul also said that conservatives must present a message of justice and concern for the unemployed and be against government surveillance to attract new people to the movement, including the young, Hispanics, and blacks.[150][151][152] Kentucky law does not allow a candidate to be on ballot for more than one office, thus Paul would not be able to run for Senate reelection at the same time as he ran for President or Vice-President. A 2014 bill changing this law passed the Republican-led state Senate, but stalled in the Democratic-led House of Representatives.[153][154]

Political positions

Main article: Political positions of Rand Paul

A member of the Tea Party movement,[155][156] Paul has described himself as a "constitutional conservative".[157] He is generally described as a libertarian, a term he both embraced[158] and rejected[159] during his first Senate campaign. He supports term limits, a balanced budget amendment, and the Read the Bills Act, in addition to the widespread reduction of federal spending and taxation.[6] He has said that he favors some form of a flat tax, but has not released a detailed proposal.[160]

Unlike his more stridently "non-interventionist" father, Paul concedes a role for American armed forces abroad, including permanent foreign military bases.[161] He has said that he blames supporters of the Iraq War and not President Obama for the growth in violence that occurred in 2014, and that any threat to the USA from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was merely conjecture.[162] Dick Cheney, John McCain and Rick Perry have responded by calling Paul an isolationist,[163][164] but Paul has pointed to opinion polls of likely GOP primary voters as support for his position.[165] Paul also stated: "I personally believe that this group would not be in Iraq and would not be as powerful had we not been supplying their allies in the war [against Syrian Bashar al-Assad's government]."[166] Paul then supported airstrikes against ISIL, but questioned the constitutionality of Obama's unilateral actions without a clear congressional mandate.[167][168]

On social issues, Paul describes himself as "100% pro life",[169] believing that legal personhood begins at fertilization.[170][171][172] In 2009 his position was to ban abortion under all circumstances.[173][174] Since 2010 he has said he would allow for a doctor's discretion in life-threatening cases such as ectopic pregnancies.[175] Paul opposes same-sex marriage, but believes the issue should be left to the states to decide and would not support a federal ban.[176][177] He has criticized mandatory minimums that have led to unreasonably harsh sentences for repeated offenders. He has highlighted the case of Timothy L. Tyler as particularly unfair.[178] Paul does not believe in legalizing drugs like marijuana and cocaine.[159]

Personal life

Paul is married to Kelley (née Ashby) Paul. They live in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where she is a freelance writer and manages payroll and marketing communications for his ophthalmology practice.[179] They have three sons: William, Duncan, and Robert. Paul wears hearing aids in both ears.[180]

See also

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U.S. Senate
Preceded by United States Senator (Class 3) from Kentucky
January 5, 2011
Served alongside: Mitch McConnell 		Incumbent
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Preceded by Republican Party nominee for U.S. Senator from Kentucky
(Class 3) 		Most recent
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