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American attorney, lobbyist, politico and U.South. Senator from Alabama from 2022 to 2021

This article is about the American politician. For other people with the aforementioned name, see Doug Jones (disambiguation).

Doug Jones
U.s. Senator from Alabama
In office January 3, 2018 – January 3, 2021
Preceded by	Luther Strange
Succeeded by	Tommy Tuberville
United states of america Attorney for the Northern Commune of Alabama
In office September 8, 1997 – January twenty, 2001
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Claude Harris Jr.
Succeeded past	Alice Martin
Personal details
Born	Gordon Douglas Jones (1954-05-04) May 4, 1954 (age 67) Fairfield, Alabama, U.S.
Political political party	Democratic
Spouse(south)	Louise New ​ (m. )​
Children	3
Education	University of Alabama (BS) Samford University (JD)
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Website	Campaign website

Gordon Douglas Jones (born May iv, 1954) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician serving as the White House SCOTUS Nomination Advisor for Legislative Affairs.^{[1] [two]} Jones served every bit a U.s.a. senator from Alabama from 2022 to 2021. A Democrat, he was the United states 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 Constabulary at Samford University. After police school, he worked as a congressional staffer and every bit a federal prosecutor before moving to individual practice. In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed Jones equally U.S. Chaser for the Northern District of Alabama. Jones's most prominent cases were the successful prosecution of 2 Ku Klux Klan members for the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four African-American girls and the indictment of domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph. He returned to private exercise at the determination of Clinton's presidency in 2001.

Jones appear his candidacy for The states Senate in the 2022 special election post-obit the resignation of Republican incumbent Jeff Sessions to become U.South. Attorney General. Later on winning the Democratic primary in August, he faced quondam Alabama Supreme Courtroom Justice Roy Moore in the general election. Jones was considered a long-shot candidate in a deeply Republican land. 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.^[three] Jones won the special election past 22,000 votes, 50%–48%.^[4]

At the time, Jones was the only statewide elected Democrat in Alabama and the first Democrat to win statewide part since Lucy Baxley was elected President of the Alabama Public Service Commission in 2008. Democrats had not represented Alabama in the U.Due south. Senate since 1997, when Howell Heflin left function. Jones was considered a moderate Democrat who demonstrated a willingness to work with Republicans and split with his party on sure problems.^[five] Jones ran for a full term in 2022 and lost to Republican nominee Tommy Tuberville past a wide margin.^[6]

In January 2021, he joined CNN as a political commentator.^[7] Jones was a GU Politics Fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service during the spring 2022 academic semester.^[8] In February 2022, he was named as the Biden administration's SCOTUS Nomination Counselor for Legislative Affairs.^[9]

Early on life and teaching [edit]

Doug Jones was built-in in Fairfield, Alabama to Gordon and Gloria (Wesson) Jones.^{[10] [11]} His father worked at U.S. Steel and his mother was a homemaker.^[12] Jones graduated from the Academy of Alabama with a Bachelor of Scientific discipline in political science in 1976, and earned his Juris Doctor from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 1979. He is a member of Beta Theta Pi.^[13]

Jones'southward political career began as staff counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for Alabama Senator Howell Heflin.^[14] Jones then worked as an Assistant U.Due south. Attorney from 1980 to 1984 earlier resigning to work at a individual law firm in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1984 to 1997.^[15]

Career [edit]

President Bill Clinton announced on August 18, 1997, his intent to engage Jones as U.Due south. 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.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama appointed Jones equally acting U.South. Chaser. The Senate confirmed Jones's nomination on November viii, 1997,^[17] by vocalization vote.^[18]

In January 1998, Eric Rudolph bombed the New Woman All Women Health Care Middle in Birmingham. Jones was responsible for coordinating the state and federal chore force in the backwash, and advocated that Rudolph be tried first in Birmingham before being extradited and tried in Georgia for his crimes in that state, such as the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.^{[19] [twenty]}

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 building bombing. The case was reopened the year before Jones was appointed, just did not gain traction until his appointment. A federal grand jury was chosen in 1998, which defenseless the attention of Cherry's ex-wife, Willadean Crimson, and led her to call the FBI to give her testimony. Willadean and so introduced Jones to family and friends, who reported their ain experiences from the time of the bombing. A fundamental piece of evidence was a tape from the time of the bombing in which Blanton said he had plotted with others to make the bomb. Jones was deputized to argue in state court and indicted Blanton and Ruby-red in 2000.^{[21] [22]} Blanton was found guilty in 2001 and Crimson in 2002. Both were sentenced to life in prison. Blanton was upwardly for parole in 2016; Jones spoke against his release, and parole was denied. Cherry died in prison in 2004.^{[23] [24]}

External video
After 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 Ruby's prosecution in his 2022 book Angle Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Inverse the Course of Civil Rights.^[25]

Return to private practice [edit]

Jones left office in 2001 and returned to private do, joining the constabulary firm of Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker.^[26] In 2004, he was court-appointed General Special Primary in an ecology cleanup case involving Monsanto in Anniston, Alabama.^{[27] [28] [29]} In 2007, the Birmingham Civil Rights Constitute gave Jones its 15th Anniversary Ceremonious Rights Distinguished Service Award.^[30] As well in 2007, Jones testified earlier the United 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's Fusion Award winners in 2015.^[33] In 2017, he received the Lifetime Accomplishment Award 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 11, 2017, Jones announced his candidacy for that year's U.S. Senate special ballot, running for the seat left open up when Jeff Sessions was appointed Attorney Full general. Sessions, a Republican, had held the seat since 1997, after Democrat Howell Heflin chose not to run for reelection.^[35] Jones won the Democratic nomination in August,^[36] and became the Senator-elect for Alabama subsequently defeating former Alabama Supreme Court gauge Roy Moore in the general election on Dec 12, which was likewise Jones'south 25th wedding ceremony.^{[37] [38]}

Jones received 673,896 votes (50.0%) to Moore'due south 651,972 votes (48.three%) with 22,852 write-in votes (ane.vii%).^[37] After the election, Moore refused to concede. He filed a lawsuit attempting to cake the state from certifying the election and called for an investigation into voter fraud, equally well as a new election.^[39] On Dec 28, 2017, a guess dismissed his suit and state officials certified the election results, officially declaring Jones the winner.^[40]

Tenure [edit]

Jones was sworn in on January 3, 2018, alongside beau Democrat Tina Smith of Minnesota, and his term ran through January 3, 2021, the balance of Sessions's term.^{[41] [42]} He was the starting time Democrat to stand for the country in the U.Due south. Senate in 21 years, and the first elected in 25.^{[43] [44]} Jones was ane of five Democratic senators who voted for the continuing resolution that failed to laissez passer and consequently led to the United States federal government shutdown of 2018.^[45] According 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'due south fellow Alabama senator, Republican Richard Shelby, who had a 45% approval rating, with 30% disapproving.^[46]

On January viii, 2019, Jones was 1 of four Democrats to vote to accelerate a bill imposing sanctions against the Syrian government and furthering U.Southward. support for Israel and Jordan as Democratic members of the chamber employed tactics to end the Usa federal authorities shutdown of 2018–2019.^[47]

In September 2019, after the House launched an impeachment enquiry against President Trump, Jones urged caution on the function of the media and his colleagues considering his feel with law had led him to believe that it was "very unlikely in that location's going to be an absolute smoking gun on either side". He stated his support for "fact-finding" by the House, only after which he would make a decision about Trump'southward guilt.^{[48] [49]} In Feb 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 regime to interfere in the election.^[50]

Committee assignments [edit]

• Commission on Armed Services
  • Subcommittee on Airland
  • Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Back up
  • Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
• Committee on Cyberbanking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ^[51]
  • Subcommittee on Economic Policy
  • Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Customs Development
  • Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment
• Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
  • Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
  • Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security
• Special Committee on Aging
• Commission on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

2020 election [edit]

Jones ran for a full six-year term. He was seen as the nearly vulnerable senator from either party since Alabama is a deeply Republican country and the circumstances and controversy surrounding his Republican opponent in 2022 were no longer a factor.^{[ citation needed ]}

The Democratic Party nominated Jones for the seat unopposed.^[52] The ii meridian contenders in the Republican primary were former football coach Tommy Tuberville and former United States Attorney Full general Jeff Sessions, who had held Jones's seat before resigning to become Chaser General in 2017. U.S. Representative Bradley Byrne was likewise a contender, sometimes fifty-fifty outpolling the other candidates, but in the start round of the principal, on March three, Tuberville and Sessions finished second and first. Since neither had a majority of the vote, they advanced to a runoff, which Tuberville won. Jones was the only Autonomous senator to lose re-election in 2020.^[53]

Tuberville won the full general election with over lx% of the vote.^{[54] [55]}

Mail service-congressional career [edit]

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

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

In January 2022, Biden named Jones every bit his "sherpa" in assisting 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".^[60] 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 look at the positions I've got on health care, if you expect at the positions I got on jobs—you should look at the support I have from the business organization community—I call up I'one thousand pretty mainstream."^[62] Jones's campaign has emphasized "kitchen-table" issues such as health care and the economy.^{[63] [64] [65]} He has called for bipartisan solutions to those issues^[66] and pledged to "detect mutual ground" betwixt 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 Bit of Arizona.^{[69] [70]} Co-ordinate to FiveThirtyEight, Jones had voted with President Donald Trump's position about 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 merely three of his fellow Democratic senators while likewise taking liberal positions more in line with his party, including LGBT rights.^[72]

Abortion [edit]

Jones is by and large pro-option on abortion with the exception of tardily-term abortion stating during a virtual rally "I have never, never supported what is known equally a late term abortion." Too in the aforementioned virtual rally he stated "I back up the Hyde Amendment I take said that over and over." In 2018, Planned Parenthood gave him a 100% rating, while the National Correct to Life Committee gave him a 0% rating. Jones voted against the Hurting-Capable Unborn Kid Protection Act, which prohibits ballgame subsequently 20 weeks except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the pregnant adult female'due south health.^[73] He likewise pledged to support Planned Parenthood as a senator.^[74] In May 2022 he criticized the passage of an ballgame ban in Alabama, calling it "shameful".^[75]

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

Agronomics [edit]

On December 11, 2018, Jones voted for the conference farm bill, which included his provisions for farmers, rural health, wastewater infrastructure, and loftier-speed net.^[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 have the flexibility to rest at any indicate during their trip without it beingness 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 Human activity of 2019, a bill that requested $5 billion for a matching funds program that the Federal Communications Commission would administrate to "requite priority to qualifying projects" and mandated that at to the lowest degree 15% of funding become to high-price and geographically challenged areas. The legislation too authorized recipients of the funding to form "public awareness" and "digital literacy" campaigns to further awareness of the "value and benefits of broadband internet access service" and served equally a companion to the Broadband Data Improvement Act.^[79]

Criminal justice reform [edit]

In December 2018, Jones voted for the Beginning Step Act, legislation aimed at reducing recidivism rates among federal prisoners by expanding job training and other programs in improver to expanding early on-release programs and modifying sentencing laws such as mandatory minimum sentences for irenic drug offenders, "to more than deservedly punish drug offenders."^[lxxx]

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

Corporate disclosure [edit]

In June 2019, along with Democrat Mark Warner and Republicans Tom Cotton and Mike Rounds, Jones introduced the Improving Laundering Laws and Increasing Comprehensive Data Tracking of Criminal Activity in Vanquish Holdings (ILLICIT Cash) Deed, a bill mandating that shell companies disclose their existent owners to the United States Section of the Treasury and updating outdated federal anti-coin laundering laws by bettering communications among constabulary enforcement, regulatory agencies, the financial industry, and the manufacture and regulators of advanced engineering. Jones said he was "all as well familiar with criminals hiding behind shell corporations to enable their illegal beliefs" from existence an chaser.^[81]

Gun policy [edit]

Jones supports some gun control measures, including "tighter groundwork checks for gun sales and to heighten the historic period requirement to purchase a gun from 18 to 21",^[82] but has said that he does not support an assail weapons ban and that such a ban could not pass Congress.^[83] Jones himself is a gun owner.^[84]

In March 2018, Jones was i of ten senators to sign a letter to Chairman of the Usa Senate Committee on Health, Teaching, 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 School shooting.^[85]

In 2018, Jones co-sponsored the NICS Denial Notification Act,^[86] legislation adult in the backwash of the Stoneman Douglas Loftier School shooting that would crave federal government to inform states inside a 24-hour interval after a person failing the National Instant Criminal Groundwork Check Organisation attempts to buy a firearm.^[87]

Immigration [edit]

In 2018, Jones participated in votes apropos clearing and Deferred Action for Childhood 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 as children, known equally Dreamers, which did not include funding for a edge wall; voted confronting withholding federal funding from sanctuary cities; voted for Susan Collins's bipartisan bill to offer a pathway to citizenship and federal funding for edge security; and voted against 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 besides proposed reassessing the current quota organisation.^[89] He has agreed that improvements in border security are needed merely does non believe information technology is a national emergency.^[ninety]

LGBT rights [edit]

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

Defense [edit]

In March 2018, Jones voted against Bernie Sanders's and Chris Irish potato'southward resolution to cease U.S. support for the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.^[94]

In an interview with The Birmingham News, Jones said he favored increasing defence force spending, proverb it would boost Alabama's local economic system, peculiarly in the areas around NASA'southward Marshall Space Flight Eye and the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, and protect the Us from foreign threats.^[95]

Jones voted to ostend Mike Pompeo equally U.S. Secretarial assistant of State, joining with Republicans and five other Democratic senators. He opposed Gina Haspel's nomination equally CIA director.^[96]

In May 2019, Jones co-sponsored the S Mainland china Sea and Eastward China Sea Sanctions Human action, a bipartisan beak reintroduced by Marco Rubio and Ben Cardin intended to disrupt Cathay'southward consolidation or expansion of its claims of jurisdiction over the bounding main and air space in disputed zones in the South China Body of water.^[97]

In Baronial 2019, after Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were denied entry into Israel due to their back up for BDS, Jones said he was "concerned the human relationship with Israel is kickoff to run into some cracks for political reasons" and that the US-Israel relationship was being "used as a political weapon to endeavor to split up 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 of the alphabet to President Trump calling on him to "urge Turkey to end their offensive and observe a way to a peaceful resolution while supporting our Kurdish partners to ensure regional stability" and arguing that to leave Syria without installing protections for American allies would endanger both them and the US.^[99]

Economy [edit]

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

Pedagogy [edit]

In February 2019, Jones was one of 20 senators to sponsor the Employer Participation in Repayment Act, enabling employers to contribute upwards to $v,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 permit school districts across the Us to apply for grants to help the schools in attracting and retaining quality teachers. The bill too funded the Instruction Department's efforts to help smaller and under-resourced districts utilize for grants.^[105]

On September nineteen, 2019, Jones took to the Senate floor to asking unanimous consent to laissez passer legislation that would farther the $255 million in federal funding for minority-serving colleges and universities alee of its expiration date in weeks. The vote was shut down by Senate Instruction Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, who instead chosen for support for the passage of "a long-term solution that volition provide certainty to higher presidents and their students" and "a few additional bipartisan higher education proposals."^[106]

Environs [edit]

In March 2019, Jones was one of three Democrats to vote with all Senate Republicans against the Green New Bargain when it came up 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 ane of 44 senators to innovate the International Climate Accountability Act, legislation that would preclude Trump from using funds in an attempt to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and directing the Trump administration to instead develop a strategic plan for the Usa that would let it to meet its commitment 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.S. health-care system, which he calls cleaved.^[109] He supports the reauthorization of the Children'south Health Insurance Programme^[109] and during his senatorial campaign repeatedly criticized his opponent for defective a clear stance on the program.^{[109] [66]} Jones says he is open up to the idea of a public pick, just that he is "not there nevertheless" on single-payer healthcare.^[64] In January 2018, Jones was ane of six Democrats to bring together most Republicans in voting to ostend Alex Azar, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services.^[110]

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

In January 2019, Jones was 1 of six senators to cosponsor the Health Insurance Tax Relief Act, delaying the Health Insurance Revenue enhancement for two years.^[112]

In January 2019, Jones was one of half dozen Autonomous senators to introduce the American Miners Act of 2019, a bill that would amend the Surface Mining Command and Reclamation Act of 1977 to swap funds in excess of the amounts needed to meet existing obligations under the Abandoned Mine State fund to the 1974 Pension Plan as office of an effort to preclude its insolvency as a result of coal company bankruptcies and the 2008 financial crisis. It besides increased the Blackness Lung Disability Trust Fund taxation and ensured that miners affected by the 2022 coal company bankruptcies would non lose their health care.^[113]

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

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

In September 2019, amidst discussions to prevent a authorities shutdown, Jones was ane of six Democratic senators to sign a letter of the alphabet to congressional leadership advocating the passage of legislation to permanently fund wellness care and alimony benefits for retired coal miners as "families in Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alabama, Colorado, North Dakota and New United mexican states" would offset to receive notifications of health care termination by the end of the following month.^[116]

In October 2019, Jones was one of 27 senators to sign a letter to Senate Majority 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 elapse the following month. The senators warned that if the funding for the Community Health Centre Fund (CHCF) was allowed to elapse, it "would cause an estimated two,400 site closures, 47,000 lost jobs, and threaten the health care of approximately 9 1000000 Americans."^[117]

United States Postal Service [edit]

In March 2019, Jones co-sponsored a bipartisan resolution led by Gary Peters and Jerry Moran that opposed privatization of the The states Postal Service (USPS), citing the USPS equally a self-sustaining establishment and noting concerns that privatization could cause college 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 non called for tax increases and has instead called for reductions in corporate taxes "to try to get reinvestment back into this state".^[119] He opposed the Tax 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 fellow Democrat Amy Klobuchar and Republicans Pat Toomey and Bill Cassidy, Jones was a lead sponsor of the Gold Star Family Tax Relief Act, a bill to undo a provision in the Taxation Cuts and Jobs Deed that raised the tax on the benefit children receive from a parent'south Department of Defence survivor benefits plan to 37% from an average of 12% to 15%. The pecker passed in the Senate in May 2019.^[120]

Trade [edit]

In 2018, along with Joni Ernst and Rob Portman, Jones introduced the Trade Security Deed, a bill that would modify Department 232 of the Trade Expansion Deed of 1962 to crave that the Defense 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 Section to investigate whether a trading partner is undermining U.Due south. national security had "been misused to target important chore-creating industries in Alabama like car manufacturing" and that the beak would refocus "efforts on punishing bad actors, rather than pain 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 Feb 2019, amid a written report by the Commerce Department that ZTE had been caught illegally shipping goods of American origin to Iran and Northward Korea, Jones was one of vii senators to sponsor a bill reimposing sanctions on ZTE in the event that ZTE did non accolade both American laws and its agreement with the Trump administration.^[123]

In a July 2022 committee hearing, Jones predicted that tariffs would eventually directly hit the consumer and they would witness "tariffs that are going to cause a depletion in supply of things similar Bibles and artificial angling lures, which are fairly standard staples in Alabama."^[124]

Addressing the North Alabama International Trade Association in September 2019, Jones said Alabama had a fairly robust economy that was likewise "pretty frail and it could go completely bosom if we don't get this trade war with Mainland china and other trade issues resolved and resolved before long", and that uncertainty near tariffs was affecting business organization confidence.^[125]

Veterans [edit]

In December 2018, Jones was one of 21 senators to sign a letter 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 existence the VA's highest clinical priority and requesting that Wilkie "consult with experts with proven track records of successful public and mental wellness outreach campaigns with a particular emphasis on how those individuals mensurate success".^[126]

Personal life [edit]

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

Jones has been a member of the Canterbury United Methodist Church building in Mountain Brook for more than than 33 years.^[130] He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Blackburn Institute, a leadership evolution and civic engagement program at the University of Alabama.^[131]

Electoral history [edit]

Jones celebrating his U.Due south. Senate election 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 information (federal office) at the Federal Ballot Commission
• Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
• Appearances on C-SPAN

Legal offices
Preceded by Claude Harris Jr.	United States Attorney for the Northern Commune of Alabama 1997–2001	Succeeded by Alice Martin
Political party political offices
Vacant Title last held past Vivian Davis Figures	Democratic nominee for U.Southward. Senator from Alabama (Class 2) 2017, 2020	Well-nigh recent
U.South. Senate
Preceded by Luther Strange	U.S. senator (Class 2) from Alabama 2018–2021 Served aslope: Richard Shelby	Succeeded past Tommy Tuberville
U.S. lodge of precedence (formalism)
Preceded past Luther Strange as Erstwhile US Senator	Club of precedence of the United States	Succeeded past Jean Carnahan equally Former U.s.a. Senator

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