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Doug Jones
Senator Doug Jones official photo.jpg
United States Senator
from Alabama
In office
January 3, 2018 – January three, 2021
Preceded by Luther Foreign
Succeeded past Tommy Tuberville
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama
In office
September 8, 1997 – Jan 20, 2001
President Nib Clinton
Preceded by Claude Harris Jr.
Succeeded by Alice Martin
Personal details
Born

Gordon Douglas Jones


(1954-05-04) May four, 1954 (age 67)
Fairfield, Alabama, U.S.
Political party Autonomous
Spouse(s)

Louise New

​

(m. )​
Children three
Education University of Alabama (BS)
Samford University (JD)
Signature
Website Campaign website

Gordon Douglas Jones (born May 4, 1954) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and pol serving as the White House SCOTUS Nomination Advisor for Legislative Affairs.[ane] [ii] Jones served as a United states senator from Alabama from 2022 to 2021. A Democrat, he was the United states of america Chaser for the Northern Commune of Alabama from 1997 to 2001.

Jones was born in Fairfield, Alabama, and is a graduate of the University of Alabama and Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. After law school, he worked as a congressional staffer and as a federal prosecutor before moving to private practise. In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed Jones as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Jones'south most prominent cases were the successful prosecution of 2 Ku Klux Klan members for the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed 4 African-American girls and the indictment of domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph. He returned to private do at the determination of Clinton'south presidency in 2001.

Jones announced his candidacy for United States Senate in the 2022 special election following the resignation of Republican incumbent Jeff Sessions to become U.S. Attorney Full general. After winning the Autonomous primary in August, he faced one-time Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore in the general election. Jones was considered a long-shot candidate in a deeply Republican state. A month before the election, Moore was alleged to have sexually assaulted and otherwise acted inappropriately with several women, including some who were minors at the time.[3] Jones won the special election past 22,000 votes, 50%–48%.[4]

At the time, Jones was the but statewide elected Democrat in Alabama and the start Democrat to win statewide function since Lucy Baxley was elected President of the Alabama Public Service Commission in 2008. Democrats had non represented Alabama in the U.S. Senate since 1997, when Howell Heflin left office. Jones was considered a moderate Democrat who demonstrated a willingness to piece of work with Republicans and dissever with his party on certain issues.[5] Jones ran for a total term in 2022 and lost to Republican nominee Tommy Tuberville by a wide margin.[vi]

In Jan 2021, he joined CNN every bit a political commentator.[vii] Jones was a GU Politics Fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service during the spring 2022 bookish semester.[8] In February 2022, he was named as the Biden administration'south SCOTUS Nomination Advisor for Legislative Affairs.[ix]

Early on life and didactics [edit]

Doug Jones was built-in in Fairfield, Alabama to Gordon and Gloria (Wesson) Jones.[ten] [11] His male parent worked at U.S. Steel and his female parent was a homemaker.[12] Jones graduated from the University of Alabama with a Available of Science in political science in 1976, and earned his Juris Physician from Cumberland Schoolhouse of Law at Samford University in 1979. He is a fellow member of Beta Theta Pi.[xiii]

Jones'southward political career began equally staff counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for Alabama Senator Howell Heflin.[14] Jones and then worked equally an Assistant U.South. Chaser from 1980 to 1984 before resigning to piece of work at a private law business firm in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1984 to 1997.[fifteen]

Career [edit]

President Bill Clinton announced on August eighteen, 1997, his intent to appoint Jones equally U.Southward. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama,[sixteen] and formally nominated Jones to the post on September 2, 1997.[17] On September 8, 1997, the U.Southward. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama appointed Jones as interim U.South. Attorney. The Senate confirmed Jones'southward nomination on November 8, 1997,[17] past vox vote.[18]

In January 1998, Eric Rudolph bombed the New Adult female All Women Health Intendance Center in Birmingham. Jones was responsible for coordinating the state and federal job forcefulness in the backwash, and advocated that Rudolph be tried first in Birmingham earlier being extradited and tried in Georgia for his crimes in that land, such equally the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.[xix] [20]

16th Street Baptist Church bombing case [edit]

Jones during the trial of Bobby Frank Cherry

Jones prosecuted Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry, 2 members of the Ku Klux Klan, for their roles in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. The case was reopened the year before Jones was appointed, just did not proceeds traction until his appointment. A federal one thousand jury was called in 1998, which caught the attending of Cherry'southward ex-wife, Willadean Cherry, and led her to call the FBI to give her testimony. Willadean and then introduced Jones to family and friends, who reported their own experiences from the time of the bombing. A central slice of evidence was a tape from the time of the bombing in which Blanton said he had plotted with others to brand the bomb. Jones was deputized to contend in state courtroom and indicted Blanton and Cherry-red in 2000.[21] [22] Blanton was establish guilty in 2001 and Cherry in 2002. Both were sentenced to life in prison. Blanton was up for parole in 2016; Jones spoke confronting his release, and parole was denied. Reddish died in prison in 2004.[23] [24]

External video
video icon Afterwards Words interview with Jones on Bending Toward Justice, March 9, 2019, C-Span

Jones recounts the history of the bombings and his subsequent interest in Blanton and Cherry'due south prosecution in his 2022 book Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Grade of Civil Rights.[25]

Return to private practice [edit]

Jones left office in 2001 and returned to private practise, joining the law business firm of Haskell Slaughter Immature & Rediker.[26] In 2004, he was court-appointed General Special Master in an environmental cleanup instance involving Monsanto in Anniston, Alabama.[27] [28] [29] In 2007, the Birmingham Civil Rights Plant gave Jones its 15th Anniversary Civil Rights Distinguished Service Laurels.[30] Also in 2007, Jones testified before the The states House Committee on the Judiciary about the importance of reexamining crimes of the Civil Rights Era.[31] [32] In 2013, he formed the Birmingham firm Jones & Hawley, PC with longtime friend Greg Hawley.[27] Jones was named one of B-Metro Magazine'due south Fusion Award winners in 2015.[33] In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Laurels from the Alabama chapter of the Young Democrats of America.[34]

U.S. Senate [edit]

2017 election [edit]

Jones at a campaign rally in October 2017

On May xi, 2017, Jones announced his candidacy for that twelvemonth's U.S. Senate special ballot, running for the seat left open when Jeff Sessions was appointed Attorney General. Sessions, a Republican, had held the seat since 1997, after Democrat Howell Heflin chose not to run for reelection.[35] Jones won the Autonomous nomination in August,[36] and became the Senator-elect for Alabama afterward defeating one-time Alabama Supreme Court judge Roy Moore in the general election on Dec 12, which was also Jones's 25th wedding ceremony.[37] [38]

Jones received 673,896 votes (l.0%) to Moore'due south 651,972 votes (48.3%) with 22,852 write-in votes (one.vii%).[37] Subsequently the election, Moore refused to concede. He filed a lawsuit attempting to block the state from certifying the election and chosen for an investigation into voter fraud, too every bit a new election.[39] On December 28, 2017, a judge dismissed his adapt and state officials certified the election results, officially declaring Jones the winner.[40]

Tenure [edit]

Jones was sworn in on January 3, 2018, alongside fellow Democrat Tina Smith of Minnesota, and his term ran through Jan three, 2021, the remainder of Sessions's term.[41] [42] He was the first Democrat to represent the state in the U.S. Senate in 21 years, and the beginning elected in 25.[43] [44] Jones was one of five Democratic senators who voted for the continuing resolution that failed to pass and consequently led to the United States federal government shutdown of 2018.[45] Co-ordinate to Morn Consult, which polls approval ratings of senators, as of October 17, 2019[update], Jones had a 41% approval rating, with 36% disapproving. This trailed Jones's fellow Alabama senator, Republican Richard Shelby, who had a 45% approval rating, with 30% disapproving.[46]

On January 8, 2019, Jones was one of four Democrats to vote to advance a pecker imposing sanctions against the Syrian government and furthering U.Southward. support for State of israel and Jordan as Democratic members of the chamber employed tactics to finish the United States federal government shutdown of 2018–2019.[47]

In September 2019, later the House launched an impeachment inquiry against President Trump, Jones urged circumspection on the part of the media and his colleagues because his feel with law had led him to believe that it was "very unlikely there's going to be an absolute smoking gun on either side". He stated his back up for "fact-finding" by the Business firm, merely later on which he would make a determination nigh Trump'southward guilt.[48] [49] In February 2020, Jones voted to convict President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, saying the evidence presented "clearly proves" that Trump used his office to seek to coerce a foreign government to interfere in the ballot.[50]

Commission assignments [edit]

  • Committee on Armed forces
    • Subcommittee on Airland
    • Subcommittee on Readiness and Direction Support
    • Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
  • Committee on Cyberbanking, Housing, and Urban Diplomacy [51]
    • Subcommittee on Economical Policy
    • Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
    • Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment
  • Committee on Wellness, Educational activity, Labor and Pensions
    • Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
    • Subcommittee on Master Wellness and Retirement Security
  • Special Committee on Aging
  • Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Diplomacy

2020 election [edit]

Jones ran for a total six-year term. He was seen as the nigh vulnerable senator from either political party since Alabama is a deeply Republican state and the circumstances and controversy surrounding his Republican opponent in 2022 were no longer a factor.[ commendation needed ]

The Democratic Party nominated Jones for the seat unopposed.[52] The two top contenders in the Republican primary were former football coach Tommy Tuberville and sometime U.s.a. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had held Jones'south seat before resigning to become Attorney Full general in 2017. U.S. Representative Bradley Byrne was too a contender, sometimes even outpolling the other candidates, but in the first round of the primary, on March 3, Tuberville and Sessions finished 2d and first. Since neither had a majority of the vote, they advanced to a runoff, which Tuberville won. Jones was the simply Democratic senator to lose re-election in 2020.[53]

Tuberville won the general ballot with over 60% of the vote.[54] [55]

Post-congressional career [edit]

In November 2020, Jones was mentioned as a potential candidate for United states of america Chaser Full general in the Biden administration.[56] The position was ultimately filled by Merrick Garland.

On Jan 29, 2021, Jones joined CNN as a political commentator. He as well became a politics fellow at Georgetown Academy.[57] In May 2021, Jones and his former Senate staff member Cissy Jackson were appear to have joined the Authorities Relations and Authorities Enforcement & White Neckband division of the D.C.-based law business firm Arent Fox, joining the likes of former Senator Byron Dorgan and former Representative Phil English.[58]

In January 2022, Biden named Jones every bit his "sherpa" in profitable with filling the vacancy Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.[59]

Political positions [edit]

The editorial board of The Birmingham News has described Jones as a "moderate Democrat".[threescore] Former Alabama Democratic Party chair Giles Perkins described Jones as "a moderate, middle-of-the-road guy".[61] Describing his own views, Jones said: "If you wait at the positions I've got on wellness intendance, if you wait at the positions I got on jobs—you should expect at the support I have from the business organization customs—I retrieve I'm pretty mainstream."[62] Jones'southward campaign has emphasized "kitchen-table" problems such as health care and the economy.[63] [64] [65] He has called for bipartisan solutions to those issues[66] and pledged to "discover common ground" between both major parties.[67] Jones said that people should not "expect [him] to vote solidly for Republicans or Democrats".[68] During his entrada, he had supporters from both parties, including Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona.[69] [70] According to FiveThirtyEight, Jones had voted with President Donald Trump's position most 35% of the time equally of September 2020.[71]

A July 2022 NBC News editorial stated that Jones had voted with Trump more often than all but iii of his fellow Democratic senators while too taking liberal positions more in line with his party, including LGBT rights.[72]

Abortion [edit]

Jones is generally pro-choice on abortion with the exception of belatedly-term ballgame stating during a virtual rally "I accept never, never supported what is known as a tardily term abortion." Likewise in the same virtual rally he stated "I support the Hyde Amendment I have said that over and over." In 2018, Planned Parenthood gave him a 100% rating, while the National Right to Life Committee gave him a 0% rating. Jones voted confronting the Hurting-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which prohibits abortion after xx weeks except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the pregnant woman's health.[73] He besides pledged to support Planned Parenthood every bit a senator.[74] In May 2022 he criticized the passage of an abortion ban in Alabama, calling it "shameful".[75]

In February 2019, Jones was one of three Senate Democrats to vote for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Human activity, legislation requiring health care practitioners present at the time of a birth "exercise the same degree of professional person skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious wellness care practitioner would render to any other kid born alive at the same gestational age."[76] Jones is a supporter of the Hyde Subpoena.

Agriculture [edit]

On December 11, 2018, Jones voted for the conference farm bill, which included his provisions for farmers, rural health, wastewater infrastructure, and high-speed cyberspace.[77] In May 2019, he co-sponsored the Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act, a bipartisan bill introduced by Ben Sasse and Jon Tester intended to reform hours of service for livestock haulers by authorizing drivers to accept the flexibility to rest at any point during their trip without it being counted against their hours of service and exempting loading and unloading times from the calculation of driving time.[78]

Broadband [edit]

In June 2019, Jones and Republican Senator Susan Collins cosponsored the American Broadband Buildout Act of 2019, a bill that requested $5 billion for a matching funds program that the Federal Communications Commission would administrate to "give priority to qualifying projects" and mandated that at least 15% of funding go to high-price and geographically challenged areas. The legislation also authorized recipients of the funding to form "public sensation" and "digital literacy" campaigns to further awareness of the "value and benefits of broadband internet access service" and served as a companion to the Broadband Data Improvement Human activity.[79]

Criminal justice reform [edit]

In December 2018, Jones voted for the Start Stride Human action, legislation aimed at reducing recidivism rates amongst federal prisoners past expanding job grooming and other programs in add-on to expanding early-release programs and modifying sentencing laws such equally mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, "to more deservedly punish drug offenders."[fourscore]

Jones supports the reversal of mandatory 3-strikes laws for nonviolent offenses to give judges flexibility in giving sentences.[64]

Corporate disclosure [edit]

In June 2019, forth with Democrat Mark Warner and Republicans Tom Cotton and Mike Rounds, Jones introduced the Improving Laundering Laws and Increasing Comprehensive Information Tracking of Criminal Activity in Beat out Holdings (ILLICIT Cash) Deed, a neb mandating that shell companies disclose their real owners to the United states Department of the Treasury and updating outdated federal anti-money laundering laws by bettering communications amid law enforcement, regulatory agencies, the financial industry, and the industry and regulators of advanced technology. Jones said he was "all too familiar with criminals hiding backside shell corporations to enable their illegal behavior" from being an attorney.[81]

Gun policy [edit]

Jones supports some gun control measures, including "tighter background checks for gun sales and to raise the age requirement to buy a gun from 18 to 21",[82] but has said that he does not support an assault weapons ban and that such a ban could not pass Congress.[83] Jones himself is a gun owner.[84]

In March 2018, Jones was one of 10 senators to sign a letter to Chairman of the United States Senate Commission on Health, Didactics, Labor and Pensions Lamar Alexander and ranking Democrat Patty Murray requesting they schedule a hearing on the causes and remedies of mass shootings in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High Schoolhouse shooting.[85]

In 2018, Jones co-sponsored the NICS Denial Notification Act,[86] legislation developed in the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas Loftier School shooting that would require federal government to inform states within a day after a person declining the National Instant Criminal Groundwork Bank check Organisation attempts to buy a firearm.[87]

Immigration [edit]

In 2018, Jones participated in votes apropos immigration and Deferred Action for Babyhood Arrivals (DACA). He voted in favor of the McCain–Coons proposal to offer a pathway to citizenship to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States every bit children, known as Dreamers, which did not include funding for a border wall; voted against withholding federal funding from sanctuary cities; voted for Susan Collins's bipartisan pecker to offer a pathway to citizenship and federal funding for border security; and voted confronting Trump's proposal to offer a pathway to citizenship while reducing overall legal immigration numbers and using federal funds for a border wall.[88] He has also proposed reassessing the current quota system.[89] He has agreed that improvements in edge security are needed but does not believe it is a national emergency.[ninety]

LGBT rights [edit]

Jones supports same-sex marriage and said that his son Carson, who is gay, helped change his views.[91] In 2017, he was endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign, which supports LGBT rights.[92] Jones supports protections for transgender students and transgender troops.[93]

Defence [edit]

In March 2018, Jones voted against Bernie Sanders's and Chris Tater's resolution to end U.S. support for the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Republic of yemen.[94]

In an interview with The Birmingham News, Jones said he favored increasing defense spending, proverb information technology would heave Alabama'south local economy, particularly in the areas around NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.Southward. Army'south Redstone Armory, and protect the United States from foreign threats.[95]

Jones voted to confirm Mike Pompeo equally U.S. Secretarial assistant of State, joining with Republicans and five other Autonomous senators. He opposed Gina Haspel'southward nomination every bit CIA director.[96]

In May 2019, Jones co-sponsored the South Cathay Ocean and East China Body of water Sanctions Deed, a bipartisan bill reintroduced by Marco Rubio and Ben Cardin intended to disrupt Red china's consolidation or expansion of its claims of jurisdiction over the bounding main and air space in disputed zones in the South China Bounding main.[97]

In August 2019, after Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were denied entry into Israel due to their support for BDS, Jones said he was "concerned the relationship with State of israel is beginning to meet some cracks for political reasons" and that the The states-Israel relationship was being "used as a political weapon to endeavour to divide people for political gain" in both countries. He added that while he did not agree "with a lot of their views on Israel", Tlaib and Omar were entitled to them, and cited the necessity of having to defend other members of Congress when they are barred from "the right to go and visit with other members".[98]

In October 2019, Jones was one of six senators to sign a bipartisan letter to President Trump calling on him to "urge Turkey to stop their offensive and find a style to a peaceful resolution while supporting our Kurdish partners to ensure regional stability" and arguing that to exit Syria without installing protections for American allies would endanger both them and the The states.[99]

Economy [edit]

Newsweek has described Jones as an economic populist.[100] He was one of 5 Democrats to vote for the Republican budget deal in January 2018[101] and 1 of 17 Democrats to vote with Republicans in favor of a pecker to ease banking regulations.[102] Jones opposes the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.[103]

Instruction [edit]

In February 2019, Jones was one of 20 senators to sponsor the Employer Participation in Repayment Act, enabling employers to contribute up to $5,250 to the student loans of their employees.[104]

In July 2019, Jones and Tina Smith introduced the Addressing Teacher Shortages Act, a bill to let school districts beyond the United States to employ for grants to aid the schools in alluring and retaining quality teachers. The beak also funded the Instruction Section's efforts to help smaller and under-resourced districts apply for grants.[105]

On September xix, 2019, Jones took to the Senate flooring to request unanimous consent to pass legislation that would further the $255 meg in federal funding for minority-serving colleges and universities ahead of its expiration date in weeks. The vote was shut down by Senate Education Commission Chairman Lamar Alexander, who instead chosen for support for the passage of "a long-term solution that volition provide certainty to college presidents and their students" and "a few additional bipartisan college education proposals."[106]

Environment [edit]

In March 2019, Jones was one of three Democrats to vote with all Senate Republicans confronting the Dark-green New Deal when information technology came upwards for a procedural vote. All other Senate Democrats voted "present" on the legislation, a move anticipated as allowing them to avoid having a formal position.[107]

In June 2019, Jones was one of 44 senators to introduce the International Climate Accountability Act, legislation that would prevent Trump from using funds in an attempt to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and directing the Trump administration to instead develop a strategic program for the United States that would let it to meet its delivery nether the Paris Agreement.[108]

Healthcare [edit]

Jones opposes the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, but he has called for changes to the U.Southward. health-intendance organisation, which he calls broken.[109] He supports the reauthorization of the Children'due south Health Insurance Program[109] and during his senatorial campaign repeatedly criticized his opponent for lacking a articulate stance on the plan.[109] [66] Jones says he is open to the idea of a public option, but that he is "not there yet" on unmarried-payer healthcare.[64] In January 2018, Jones was one of six Democrats to join most Republicans in voting to confirm Alex Azar, Trump'southward nominee for Secretary of Health and Homo Services.[110]

In Dec 2018, Jones was i of 42 senators to sign a letter to Trump administration officials Alex Azar, Seema Verma, and Steve Mnuchin arguing that the administration was improperly using Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Human activity to authorize states to "increment health care costs for millions of consumers while weakening protections for individuals with preexisting conditions". The senators requested the administration withdraw the policy and "re-engage with stakeholders, states, and Congress".[111]

In Jan 2019, Jones was 1 of six senators to cosponsor the Health Insurance Tax Relief Act, delaying the Health Insurance Tax for 2 years.[112]

In January 2019, Jones was one of 6 Autonomous senators to innovate the American Miners Act of 2019, a bill that would ameliorate the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Human activity of 1977 to swap funds in excess of the amounts needed to meet existing obligations under the Abased Mine Country fund to the 1974 Pension Program equally function of an effort to prevent its insolvency as a result of coal company bankruptcies and the 2008 financial crisis. It as well increased the Blackness Lung Disability Trust Fund tax and ensured that miners afflicted by the 2022 coal company bankruptcies would non lose their wellness care.[113]

In January 2019, during the 2018–19 United States federal regime shutdown, Jones was ane of 34 senators to sign a letter to Commissioner of Food and Drugs Scott Gottlieb recognizing the efforts of the FDA to address the event of the government shutdown on public wellness and employees while remaining alarmed "that the continued shutdown will result in increasingly harmful effects on the agency'southward employees and the safety and security of the nation's food and medical products".[114]

In February 2019, Jones was one of 11 senators to sign a letter of the alphabet to insulin manufactures Eli Lilly and Company, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi over increased insulin prices and charging that the price increases caused patients to lack "admission to the life-saving medications they demand".[115]

In September 2019, amid discussions to prevent a regime shutdown, Jones was one of six Democratic senators to sign a letter to congressional leadership advocating the passage of legislation to permanently fund health intendance and alimony benefits for retired coal miners equally "families in Virginia, Due west Virginia, Wyoming, Alabama, Colorado, Northward Dakota and New Mexico" would kickoff to receive notifications of health care termination by the end of the following month.[116]

In October 2019, Jones was 1 of 27 senators to sign a alphabetic character to Senate Bulk Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer advocating the passage of the Customs Health Investment, Modernization, and Excellence (Chime) Act, which was set to expire the post-obit month. The senators warned that if the funding for the Community Health Center Fund (CHCF) was allowed to elapse, information technology "would cause an estimated two,400 site closures, 47,000 lost jobs, and threaten the health intendance of approximately 9 million Americans."[117]

U.s. Postal Service [edit]

In March 2019, Jones co-sponsored a bipartisan resolution led by Gary Peters and Jerry Moran that opposed privatization of the Usa Post (USPS), citing the USPS every bit a self-sustaining establishment and noting concerns that privatization could cause higher prices and reduced services for USPS customers, especially in rural communities.[118]

Jones speaking in support of eliminating the Widows Tax in 2019.

Taxes [edit]

Jones has not called for revenue enhancement increases and has instead called for reductions in corporate taxes "to effort to get reinvestment back into this country".[119] He opposed the Revenue enhancement Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, calling information technology fiscally irresponsible and skewed to benefit the wealthy while ignoring or hurting the middle form.[119]

In 2019, along with beau Democrat Amy Klobuchar and Republicans Pat Toomey and Bill Cassidy, Jones was a lead sponsor of the Aureate Star Family Tax Relief Human activity, a bill to undo a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Human activity that raised the revenue enhancement on the do good children receive from a parent's Department of Defense survivor benefits plan to 37% from an average of 12% to xv%. The bill passed in the Senate in May 2019.[120]

Trade [edit]

In 2018, along with Joni Ernst and Rob Portman, Jones introduced the Trade Security Act, a neb that would modify Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to require that the Defence force Section justify the national-security basis for new tariffs under Department 232 and implement an increase of congressional oversight of the process. Jones said the process currently led by the Commerce Department to investigate whether a trading partner is undermining U.S. national security had "been misused to target important task-creating industries in Alabama like machine manufacturing" and that the bill would refocus "efforts on punishing bad actors, rather than hurting American manufacturers, workers, and consumers."[121]

In Dec 2018, Jones stated that automakers and soybean farmers were fearful of the Trump administration's trade policy and added that his constituents in Alabama were questioning Trump's success.[122]

In February 2019, amid a report by the Commerce Department that ZTE had been caught illegally shipping goods of American origin to Iran and North Korea, Jones was one of seven senators to sponsor a bill reimposing sanctions on ZTE in the upshot that ZTE did not honor both American laws and its agreement with the Trump administration.[123]

In a July 2022 commission hearing, Jones predicted that tariffs would eventually directly hitting the consumer and they would witness "tariffs that are going to crusade a depletion in supply of things like Bibles and artificial fishing lures, which are fairly standard staples in Alabama."[124]

Addressing the Due north Alabama International Trade Association in September 2019, Jones said Alabama had a fairly robust economic system that was too "pretty delicate and it could become completely bust if we don't get this trade war with Communist china and other merchandise issues resolved and resolved soon", and that uncertainty about tariffs was affecting concern confidence.[125]

Veterans [edit]

In December 2018, Jones was one of 21 senators to sign a letter of the alphabet to United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie calling it "appalling that the VA is non conducting oversight of its own outreach efforts" in spite of suicide prevention being the VA's highest clinical priority and requesting that Wilkie "consult with experts with proven rails records of successful public and mental health outreach campaigns with a particular emphasis on how those individuals measure success".[126]

Personal life [edit]

Jones married Louise New on December 12, 1992.[127] They have iii children.[128] Jones's father died of dementia on December 28, 2019.[129]

Jones has been a fellow member of the Canterbury United Methodist Church in Mountain Brook for more than 33 years.[130] He as well serves on the Advisory Lath of the Blackburn Constitute, a leadership development and borough appointment program at the University of Alabama.[131]

Electoral history [edit]

Jones jubilant his U.S. Senate ballot victory

2017 [edit]

2020 [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • Campaign website
  • Doug Jones at Curlie
  • Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  • Profile at Vote Smart
  • Financial data (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
  • Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
  • Appearances on C-Bridge
Legal offices
Preceded past

Claude Harris Jr.

 United States Chaser for the Northern District of Alabama
1997–2001 		Succeeded by

Alice Martin
Party political offices
Vacant

Title last held by

Vivian Davis Figures 		Democratic nominee for U.South. Senator from Alabama
(Class 2)
2017, 2020 		Well-nigh recent
U.S. Senate
Preceded by

Luther Strange

 U.Due south. senator (Class 2) from Alabama
2018–2021
Served alongside: Richard Shelby 		Succeeded by

Tommy Tuberville
U.Southward. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by

Luther Strange

as Sometime US Senator 		Order of precedence of the Us Succeeded by

Jean Carnahan

every bit Former US Senator

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