Rand Paul
U.S. Senator from Kentucky
Randal Howard Paul was born in January 1963 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Baylor University and is a graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine. After completing his residency in ophthalmology, he moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he worked at a vision center, and later a private medical group. He is a board-certified ophthalmologist.
Paul began his political career working with his father, Ron Paul, also a physician, in a presidential campaign. He was elected to the United States Senate, assuming office in January 2011.
Paul is married to Kelley Ashby and they have three sons. He is a Presbyterian.
In the News…
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, responded to the suspension of six members of the Secret Service by that agency after he subpoenaed details on disciplinary action related to the assassination attempt on President Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year. The senator called the preparations for that rally a “cascade of errors” and said the Secret Service had a “culture of cover-up.”
Senator Paul said, “It was just one error after another. When we talked to the people in charge of security, everybody pointed a finger at someone else. We said, ‘Who was responsible for that roof, the roof where the assassin lay with a direct sight line?’ Nobody wanted responsibility. Everybody said it was somebody else.”
He continued, “There was plenty of time to take him off the stage. The suspicious person with the range finder who became the shooter, many times he was spotted by police with suspicion. That should have been enough to take the president off the stage. Even with him on the roof, there was about a three-minute period when he could have been taken from the stage. And yet, no one was fired.”
Senator Paul said, “I think it was a cultural cover-up for the agency. They did not want to assess blame.” He added that “Corey Comperatore could have possibly been saved by having better security that day.”
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The Honorable Rand Paul
Senator from Kentucky
295 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
