Mark Pryor

Mark Pryor (2006)

Mark Pryor (born January 10, 1963 in Fayetteville , Arkansas ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . Pryor represented the state of Arkansas in the US Senate from 2003 to 2015 .

Life

Pryor was born to Barbara Lunsford and future Arkansas Governor and Senator David Hampton Pryor . After leaving school in Arkansas studied Pryor at the University of Arkansas Law and reached the Bachelor and Juris Doctor . After completing his studies, he initially worked as a lawyer .

Political career

Pryor became a member of the Democratic Party. In 1991 he was able to move into the Arkansas House of Representatives , to which he was a member until 1994. From January 12, 1999 to January 3, 2003, Pryor was Attorney General for his state. In the 2002 Senate election , he won his father's previous mandate by defeating Republican incumbent Tim Hutchinson and was consequently a United States Senator from January 3, 2003. In 2008 he was re-elected by a large majority, with no Republican opponents. After another tenure, he lost his seat in the 2014 election to Republican candidate Tom Cotton , who replaced him on January 3, 2015.

Religious positions

According to Jeff Sharlet , Pryor is close to the religious organization The Family ; Pryor is reported to have said that the separation of church and state was exaggerated and that Jesus did not come to bring peace but to take power.

Pryor was interviewed in Bill Maher's satirical documentary Religulous , which earned him national notoriety. There he questioned the evolution theory and professed creationism . He initially stated that he was an evangelical Christian and believed the end might be near. When Maher told him that he was concerned that people who believe in "talking snakes" are in the US Senate, he said that you don't have to take an IQ test to get into the Senate.

Political positions

Pryor is in favor of maintaining the previous practice in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp , i.e. not allowing the prisoners there to have a proper trial with criminal procedural rights.

In the decisive vote on December 24, 2009, Pryor voted in favor of Barack Obama's health care reform .

On December 18, he voted for the abolition of the Don't ask, don't tell directive and thus for the extension of the rights of homosexual US soldiers.

He is against the right of women to decide about abortion for themselves ( pro-life ).

Member of the US Senate committees

• United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
• United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
• United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
• United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
• United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
• United States Senate Committee on Ethics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the original: "had learned that the separation of church and state was a sort of secular exaggeration" and "Jesus did not come to bring peace. Jesus came to take over. " Behind the closed doors on C Street . Las Vegas Sun (July 19, 2009), online. Retrieved July 26, 2009.
2. ↑ Patrick Goldstein: Bill Maher hates your (fill in the blank) religion . In: The Big Picture , Los Angeles Times, August 7, 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2008. 
3. ↑ Lincoln, Pryor back bid to block funding to hold terror suspects in US . Arkansasnews.com. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 29, 2010. 
4. ^ Roll Call Vote . senate.gov. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
5. ^ Roll Call Vote . senate.gov. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
6. ↑ Senate Vote 281 - Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' . In: The New York Times . Archived from the original on October 27, 2015 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 15, 2012.  
7. ↑ Mark Pryor on Abortion . ontheissues.org. Retrieved April 22, 2012.

Web links

• Mark Pryor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Mark Pryor in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)