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From FS Kid to FS Champion in Congress: A Conversation with Senator Chris Van Hollen
Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), an attorney and politician, has served as the junior U.S. senator from Maryland since 2017. Prior to that, he represented Maryland’s 8th congressional district in the House from 2003 to 2017. He is a founding co-chair, with Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), of the Senate Foreign Service Caucus. The son of a career U.S. ambassador, he grew up in the Foreign Service. Editor in Chief Shawn Dorman spoke with him on June 3.
Senator Van Hollen with Pearson Fellow FSO Catherine Miller-Little.
Courtesy of Chris Van Hollen
FSJ Editor Shawn Dorman:I’d like to start by asking if you could say anything for our Foreign Service readers about what it meant growing up in the Foreign Service and how that has influenced your work and life.
Senator Chris Van Hollen: Yes, I was very proud to grow up in a Foreign Service family. My father’s family is from Baltimore originally, and then he went into the Navy and from there into the Foreign Service. My mother was the daughter of an English teacher, but she became a Russian language expert. She was very good at languages and actually worked at the forerunner of the CIA, the OSS. They met in Washington.
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Online Event: A Conversation with Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
J. STEPHEN MORRISON: Hello and good morning. I’m Steve Morrison, senior vice president here at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and we’re delighted this morning to be joined by Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland. Chris, thank you so much for being with us.
SENATOR CHRIS It’s great to be with you, Dr. Morrison.
VAN HOLLEN:
MR. MORRISON: Senator Van Hollen was elected to the Senate in November of 2016 and serves on the Banking and Appropriations Committees; prior to that served a number of terms, 2002 to 2016, in the House of Representatives representing Maryland’s 8th District where he served in the Democratic Party leadership, on the Budget Committee with a special focus on Social Security and Medicare.
He served prior to that in the Maryland State Legislature. He’s a graduate of Swarthmore, the JFK School of Public Policy at Harvard, and the Georgetown Law Center.
Welcome and thank you.
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