Pete V. Domenici

Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from New Mexico from 1973 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served six terms in the Senate, making him the longest-tenured U.S. Senator in the state's history. As of 2022, Domenici is the last Republican to be elected to the Senate from New Mexico. Wikipedia*

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Pete V. Domenici has 1,616 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1983 Senate Committee as a Republican Senator for New Mexico. The year with the most videos was 1995 with 167 videos. The year with the highest average number of views per program was 2013 with an average of 2,976 views per program as a Co-Chair for Debt Reduction Task Force in the Bipartisan Policy Center. Most appearances with John Kasich (55), Bob Dole (46), Newt Gingrich (30). Most common tags: Federal Budget, Budget Reconciliation, Budget Deficit.

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Previously

Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center - September 13, 2017 Videos: 1 U.S. Senator, R-NM January 1, 1973 - January 5, 2009 Videos: 1,612 Co-Chair, Debt Reduction Task Force, Bipartisan Policy Center - September 13, 2017 Videos: 3

Recent Appearances

  • Offshore Drilling Challenges

    Offshore Drilling Challenges

    Principal Deputy Assistant Energy Secretary for Fossil Energy Chris Smith talked about the challenges of offshore drilling in…

  • Debt Ceiling

    Debt Ceiling

    Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew spoke at a Bipartisan Policy Center forum on raising the debt ceiling. He urged Congress to rais…

  • Treasury Secretary Nomination Hearing

    Treasury Secretary Nomination Hearing

    The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew’s nomination as secretary of the treasury.…

  • Reducing Health Care Costs

    Reducing Health Care Costs

    Businessmen and politicians agreed that rising health care costs were one of the main factors driving long term deficits in t…

  • 1990 Federal Budget Deal

    1990 Federal Budget Deal

    Former congressional leaders talked about the process of reaching their 1990 deficit agreement that eventually helped bring t…

  • U.S. Debt and National Security, Defense Department Perspective

    U.S. Debt and National Security, Defense Department Perspective

    Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Admiral Mike Mullen and other former national security officials talked about the impa…

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Past Elections

Ideology data is based on DW-NOMINATE statistics developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal. More information can be found at Voteview .

Historic election results compiled from data found on FEC.gov

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