Mark Pryor

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Mark Pryor
Mark Pryor, Official Portrait, 112th Congress (2011) 1.jpg
Official portrait, 2011
United States Senator
from Arkansas
In office
January 3, 2003 –January 3, 2015
Education University of Arkansas (BA, JD)
Signature Mark Pryor Signature.svg
Website Senate website
Mark Pryor's voice
Mark Pryor testifies on toy safety at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing
Recorded September 12, 2007

Mark Lunsford Pryor (born January 10, 1963) is an American attorney, politician and lobbyist who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 2003 to 2015. He previously served as Attorney General of Arkansas from 1999 to 2003 and in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Party. [2]

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Born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Pryor is the son of former Arkansas Governor and U.S. Senator David Pryor. He received his bachelor's degree University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and his J.D. degree from its law school. He worked in private practice for several years until being elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1990. He was elected the state attorney general in 1998. Pryor announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 2001, running for the same Senate seat his father had held from 1979 to 1997. He was elected with 54% of the vote, defeating Republican incumbent Tim Hutchinson.

He was reelected with no Republican opposition in 2008. During the 112th Congress he served as the chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance. Pryor ran for reelection in 2014, but was defeated by Republican Tom Cotton. [3] In 2020, Pryor was hired as a lobbyist by Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. [4] [5] He is the most recent Democrat to serve in the U.S. Senate from Arkansas.

Early life and education

Pryor was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to the future state First Lady Barbara Jean (Lunsford) and future Governor and U.S. Senator David Hampton Pryor, then a state representative. He attended Little Rock Central High School until his father was elected to the United States Senate in 1979, after which he attended Walt Whitman High School in Maryland until graduating in 1981. [6] [7]

He graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and went on to receive his Juris Doctor from the university's law school in 1988. During college, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Early career

Prior to entering politics, Pryor worked as a private practice attorney focusing on civil litigation.

Arkansas House of Representatives

He was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995.

Arkansas attorney general

In 1994, he ran for Arkansas Attorney General, challenging incumbent Winston Bryant in the Democratic primary. Pryor lost 58%-42%. [8] In 1998, he ran for the same position again and became the Democratic Party nominee. He defeated Republican nominee Betty Dicky, the Redfield City Attorney, 59%-41%. He won all but four counties in the state: Benton, Boone, Marion, and Baxter. [9] He was also delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2000.

U.S. Senate

Pryor was recognized for providing a high level of constituent service, and he helped to secure millions of dollars in highway funds for the state. Pryor was also a committed advocate of the state’s military families; he guided the SACRIFICE Act to passage, thus providing families of those injured in combat more timely and reliable medical care. [10]

Elections

2002

In late 2001, Pryor announced his candidacy for the Senate seat held by Tim Hutchinson, who six years earlier had become the first Arkansas Republican to serve in that body since Reconstruction. The seat had been held by his father David Pryor (also a former Arkansas governor), who actively campaigned for his son. Pryor defeated Hutchinson 54% to 46% and was the only Democratic candidate for the Senate to defeat a Republican incumbent in that election cycle.

2008

Pryor won reelection in 2008 without a Republican opponent. There had been speculation that former Governor Mike Huckabee would run against Pryor if his presidential bid was unsuccessful, but on March 8, Huckabee said he would not contest the race. [11] The only Republican to express interest in the race, health care executive Tom Formicola, decided not to run. [12] Pryor's only announced opponent was Green Party candidate Rebekah Kennedy, whom he defeated 80% to 20%.

2014

Pryor ran for reelection to a third term in 2014, against Republican U.S. House Rep. Tom Cotton.

In March 2014, during an MSNBC news segment regarding the Senate race, Pryor said that Cotton gave off a "sense of entitlement" to a seat in the Senate due to his service in the military. [13] After receiving much criticism for the remark, Pryor later said he was not attacking Cotton’s military service, but his perceived lack of accomplishments in the House: "But the point remains that he's been in the House now for a little over a year, he hasn't passed any legislation. There's not one thing he's done for Arkansas." [14]

FactCheck.org called two ads aired by Pryor's 2014 Senate campaign misleading in their criticisms of Paul Ryan's Medicare plan, supported by his opponent. [15]

This race was originally thought out to be close, but Pryor lost in a landslide, with 39% of the vote to Cotton's 57%. This was the worst performance in the nation for any incumbent Senator since the defeat of then-fellow Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln in 2010.

Tenure

Somewhat atypically, Pryor was the Baby of the Senate for 19 days in January 2009, at age 45, despite never having held that distinction in his first term. This was due to the defeat of the younger John E. Sununu, making Pryor the oldest member to ever be the youngest within the Senate until the appointment of Michael Bennet.

In June 2007, before the annual Arkansas Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson dinner, Pryor announced his endorsement of his colleague Sen. Hillary Clinton for president of the United States. [16]

In 2013, Pryor voted with President Obama 90% of the time. [17]

Since 2009, Pryor's top three donors have been lawyers ($1,131,431), leadership PACs ($429,149), and lobbyists ($323,769). [18]

Legislation sponsored

Pryor introduced the Drought Information Act of 2013 (S. 376; 113th Congress) on February 25, 2013. [19] The bill that would authorize funding for the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) through 2018. [20] The NIDIS is "charged with providing timely information to prevent drought and extreme weather damage." [20] The bill passed the United States Senate on February 3, 2014.

Pryor introduced the bill "To repeal section 403 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013" on January 27, 2014. [21] The bill would repeal the provision of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 that would reduce the amount of the annual cost of living increase to non-disabled military veterans under age 62. [22] The Congressional Budget Office estimated that enacting Pryor's bill would stop the reduction of $6.813 billion from the amount paid to veterans annually. [23]

Committee assignments

Political positions

Fiscal policy

On February 13, 2009, Pryor voted to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. [24]

On April 16, 2012, Pryor was the only Democratic senator to vote against the "Buffett Rule," which was defeated 51 voting in favor to 45 voting against cloture of the filibuster. [25] [26]

In April 2014, the United States Senate debated the Minimum Wage Fairness Act (S. 1737; 113th Congress). The bill would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to $10.10 per hour over the course of a two-year period. [27] The bill was strongly supported by President Barack Obama and many of the Democratic Senators, but strongly opposed by Republicans in the Senate and House. [28] [29] [30] Pryor opposed the bill. [29] Pryor was up for election in 2014 and was at that time considered "the Senate's most vulnerable incumbent." [31]

Agriculture

Senator Pryor was consistently force against proposed cuts to conservation, rural development, agriculture research, nutrition, and forestry programs. In 2014, as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, he wrote the $20 billion annual spending legislation that allocates funds for agriculture programs. [32] Pryor secured a legislation within the 2014 Farm bill to allow domestic forestry products to be recognized by USDA as biobased, ensuring such products can be used by the federal government and can be sold as a greener alternative to consumers. [33] [34]

Through the annual budget process, Pryor helped allocate more than $125 million to advance research in forestry, specialty crops, animal science, wetland management, aquaculture and weather management. [35] [36] Pryor also worked closely with Senator Boozman to advance agricultural and food law research by allowing institutions such as the National Agricultural Law Center to enter into partnerships with private industry. [37]

Estate tax

In June 2006, Pryor voted against repeal of the federal estate tax. [38] In 2013, Pryor and Senator John Boozman (R-AR) were credited by Arkansas Farm Bureau president Randy Veach for their opposition to President Obama's plan to raise the estate tax. Pryor co-sponsored a bill that would implement a one-year extension on current estate tax rates. [39] [40] The bill did not pass. In 2008 Pryor voted against expanding the pool of people exempt from the estate tax. [41]

Health care

Pryor voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. "Obamacare") in December 2009, [42] and later voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. [43]

Foreign policy

Pryor opposes bringing Guantanamo Bay prisoners to the United States for trial. [44]

On September 28, 2006, Pryor was one of 12 Senate Democrats who voted to adopt S.3930, the Military Commissions Act of 2006. [45] He voted against the flag burning amendment in June 2006.

On March 15, 2007, Pryor was one of two Democratic senators to vote against a resolution aimed at withdrawing most American combat troops from Iraq in 2008. The vote, requiring 60 votes to pass, was 50 to 48 against. [46]

Social policy

In 2003, Pryor voted for a federal ban on partial-birth abortion. [47] He has voted in favor of the expansion of embryonic stem cell research. He voted against restricting UN funding for population control policies, prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion, and barring Health and Human Services grants to organizations that perform abortions. [48]

On December 18, 2010, Pryor voted in favor of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. [49] [50]

Gun policy

In 2004, Pryor voted to extend the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. [51] [52]

In 2013, Pryor voted against a measure that would have required background checks for all firearms purchases. [53]

In March 2013, Pryor cosponsored a bill that would flag individuals attempting to buy guns who have used an insanity defense, were ruled dangerous by a court, or had been committed by a court to mental health treatment. It did not address the gun show loophole. The bill has not been passed into law. [54] [55]

Judicial nominees

On May 23, 2005, Pryor was one of the 14 senators who forged a compromise on the Democrats' use of the judicial filibuster. This effectively ended any threat of a Democratic filibuster (and thus also avoided the Republican leadership's threatened implementation of the so-called nuclear option). Under the agreement, the Democrats would exercise the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an "extraordinary circumstance." The threat of a filibuster removed, Republicans were able to force cloture on the three most conservative Bush appellate court nominees (Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor-no close relation), who subsequently passed a vote by the full Republican-controlled Senate. [56] He did, however, vote against the nomination of Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. [57]

On November 21, 2013, Pryor was one of only three Democratic senators to dissent from Harry Reid's leadership to vote against the nuclear option which switched the Senate away from operating on a supermajority basis, to requiring only a simple majority for certain decisions. In his speech on the Senate floor that day, he said that the Senate was, "a place for debate...where Members...can reach across the aisle and find solutions...Part of that is to allow the minority to speak, even if it is a minority of one. We need to protect that right, and we need to protect every Senator's right to debate and to amend legislation." He said that the Senate was, in a sense, "the only place where the minority is guaranteed a voice. They sometimes get outvoted, but they are guaranteed at least to be heard," and said that he was, "disappointed in the use of the nuclear option. I opposed that. I think it could do permanent damage to this institution and could have some very negative ramifications for our country and for the American people.". [58]

Post-Senate career

In March 2015, Pryor became a partner at D.C.-based law and lobbying firm Venable. [59] During the 2016 and 2020 United States presidential election Pryor was a member of the Platform Committee for the Democratic National Convention.

In 2020, he was recruited by the law and lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, and described the opportunity to work for the powerhouse firm as "kind of like being able to go play football at Clemson or Alabama." [4] As of 2021, Pryor's clients include drugmaker Eli Lilly and Company, meat processor Tyson Foods, power and natural gas conglomerate Duke Energy, and auto manufacturer General Motors, among others. [5] [60] [61]

In 2021, he wrote a piece for The New York Times that called for President Joe Biden to appoint an aggressive antitrust enforcer to lead the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. [62] Pryor is a member of the Board of Advisors of the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF). [63]

Personal life

Pryor lives in Little Rock and has a son and a daughter, Adams and Porter. He is married to Joi Pryor. They are members of the First Assembly of God in North Little Rock.

In 1996, Pryor was diagnosed with clear-cell sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, in his left leg. [64] His treatment and rehabilitation took 15 months, and he was told by one doctor that he might have to have his leg amputated, but it was discovered early enough and the cancer was successfully removed. [65]

Electoral history

U.S. Senator

2014

United States Senate election in Arkansas, 2014 [66]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Tom Cotton 478,819 56.50% N/A
Democratic Mark Pryor (incumbent)334,17439.43%−40.10%
Libertarian Nathan LaFrance17,2102.03%N/A
Green Mark Swaney16,7971.98%−18.49%
N/A Write-ins5050.06%N/A
Total votes'847,505''100.0%'N/A
Republican gain from Democratic

2008

United States Senate election in Arkansas, 2008 [67]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Mark Pryor (incumbent) 804,678 79.53
Green Rebekah Kennedy 207,07620.47
Total votes1,011,754 100.00
Invalid or blank votes75,586n/a
Democratic hold

2002

Arkansas U.S. Senate Election 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Mark Pryor 433,306 53.9
Republican Tim Hutchinson (Incumbent)370,65346.1

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Legal offices
Preceded by Attorney General of Arkansas
1999–2003		Succeeded by
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Preceded by
Winston Bryant
 Democratic nominee for Arkansas Attorney General
1998		Succeeded by
Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Arkansas
(Class 2)
2002, 2008, 2014 		Vacant
U.S. Senate
Preceded by U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Arkansas
2003–2015
Served alongside: Blanche Lincoln, John Boozman 		Succeeded by
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded byas Former US Senator Order of precedence of the United States
as Former US Senator 		Succeeded byas Former US Senator
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