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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.

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730 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-4521
2200 E. Camelback, Suite 120, Phoenix, Arizona 85016 (602) 840-1891
7315 N. Oracle Road, Suite 220, Tucson, Arizona 85704 (520) 575-8633

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