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Senator Carl Levin (D)

Current Office: Senator
First Elected: 11/07/1978
Next Election: 2014
Party: Democratic

General

Gender: Male
Family: Wife: Barbara Halpern; 3 Children: Kate, Laura, Erica
Birth date: 06/28/1934
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Home City: Detroit MI
Religion: Jewish

Profession

Attorney, Law Firms, 1959-1964, 1971-1973, 1978-1979 Chief Appellate Defender, City of Detroit, 1968-1969 Assistant Attorney General, Michigan, 1964-1967 General Counsel, Michigan Civil Rights Commission, 1964-1967 Law Professor

Education

LLB, Harvard Law School, 1959 BA, Political Science, Swarthmore College, 1956

Committees

Armed Services
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia
Subcommittee on Oversight of the Terrorist Surveillance Program

Recent Votes

HR 2072 Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2012
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 2343 Prohibits Increase in Interest Rates for Student Loans
Stage: Cloture Vote
Vote: Yea

S 1925 Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 1789 United States Postal Service Amendments
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 2230 Establishes a Minimum 30 Percent Tax Rate for High-Income Taxpayers
Stage: Cloture Vote
Vote: Yea

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