U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-Arizona)
Jon Kyl was elected to the U.S. Senate from
Arizona in 1994 and re-elected in 2000, after having served four
terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves on the Senate’s
Finance Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Taxation
and IRS Oversight, and on the Judiciary
Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee
on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security. As chairman
of the Senate Republican Policy
Committee, he is one of six members of the Senate Republican
Leadership.
Among recent accomplishments and legislative
efforts, Kyl has:
Led efforts to increase funding for border
security and to reimburse states for the cost of providing federally
mandated health care to undocumented immigrants and incarcerating
criminal aliens;
Served as the driving force behind the landmark Arizona Water
Settlements Act;
Won passage of legislation to establish the Ecological Restoration
Institute at Northern Arizona University, and to expand Arizona’s
Petrified Forest National Park;
Won passage of a historic bill guaranteeing the rights of crime
victims; and
Introduced legislation to make permanent President Bush’s
tax cuts of 2001 and 2003.
Before his public service, Kyl practiced law at
Jennings, Strouss & Salmon in Phoenix. In 1985 he served as
chairman of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce.
Kyl received both his bachelor’s and
law degrees from the University of Arizona. He graduated Phi Beta
Kappa and was editor-in-chief of the Arizona Law Review. He and
his wife Caryll have two children, Kristine Kyl Gavin and John
Kyl, and four grandchildren.
730 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-4521
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