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John Fetterman (Democratic Party) is a member of the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania. He assumed office on January 3, 2023. His current term ends on January 3, 2029.

Fetterman (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Pennsylvania. He won in the general election on November 8, 2022.

In his role as lieutenant governor, Fetterman served as president of the Senate. He ran on a joint ticket with the gubernatorial nominee, Tom Wolf (D).

Fetterman was a 2016 Democratic candidate who sought election to the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania.[1] He was defeated by Katie McGinty in the Democratic primary. He served as mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, from 2005 to 2019; he won his first term by one vote.[2]

Biography

John Fetterman lives in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Fetterman earned a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University. He has served as the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania; as the chair of the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons; and with AmeriCorps.[3]

Committee assignments

U.S. Senate

2023-2024

Fetterman was assigned to the following committees:

• Joint Economic Committee
• Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
• Commodities, Risk Management and Trade
• Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, Chairman
• Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
• Subcommittee on Economic Policy
• Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
• Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
• Committee on Environment and Public Works
• Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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Elections

2022

See also: United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, 2022

General election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Everett Stern (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Walter Sluzynsky (D)
• John McGuigan (D)
• Kyle Norton (D)
• Alan Shank (D)
• Larry Johnson (D)
• Kevin Baumlin (D)
• Sharif Street (D)
• Valerie Arkoosh (D)
• Lew Tapera (D)
• Eric Orts (D)
• Kael Dougherty (D)

Republican primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• John Debellis (R)
• Max Richardson (R)
• John Eichenberg (R)
• Vince Fusca (R)
• Martin Rosenfeld (R)
• Bobby Jeffries (R)
• Richard Mulholland (R)
• Sean Parnell (R)
• Ronald Johnson (R)
• Craig Snyder (R)
• David Xu (R)

2018

See also: Pennsylvania gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2018

General election

Democratic primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Craig Lehman (D)
• Aryanna Berringer (D)

Republican primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Joe Gale (R)

2016

See also: United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, 2016

The race for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat was one of nine competitive battleground races in 2016 that helped Republicans keep control of the upper chamber after the November 8 general election. Incumbent Pat Toomey (R), who began serving in the Senate in 2011, defeated Katie McGinty (D), Edward Clifford III (L), and write-in candidate Everett Stern (I) in the general election.

Toomey ran his campaign separately from Donald Trump, and he did not tell people who he would vote for on Election Day. Toomey said, “You know, I’m not campaigning with Donald Trump. He’s running his campaign. I’m running mine.”[4][5][6]

Hillary Clinton, who campaigned with McGinty in October, criticized Toomey for not rejecting Trump as his party’s nominee. She said, “How much does he have to hear or to see? If he doesn’t have the courage to stand up against Donald Trump after all of this, then how will he stand up to special interests and powerful forces that are going to be trying to have their way in Washington?”[6]

Speaking about his campaign strategy, Toomey said, “I am convinced that Pennsylvania voters are going to make a complete separation in their minds. … There’s a presidential race going on, quite obviously, lots of attention, lots of focus, everybody’s got their opinion about it, and then there’s a totally separate thing happening in the Senate race — an incumbent senator most people know and an opponent. Totally separate campaign and totally separate judgment.”[6] Toomey stated on Election Day that he voted for Trump.[7]

U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania General Election, 2016 Party Candidate Vote % Votes Republican Pat Toomey Incumbent 48.8% 2,951,702 Democratic Katie McGinty 47.3% 2,865,012 Libertarian Edward Clifford 3.9% 235,142 Total Votes 6,051,856 Source: Pennsylvania Department of State U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania Democratic Primary, 2016 Candidate Vote % Votes Katie McGinty 42.5% 669,774 Joe Sestak 32.6% 513,221 John Fetterman 19.5% 307,090 Joseph Vodvarka 5.4% 85,837 Total Votes 1,575,922 Source: Pennsylvania Department of State

Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection

John Fetterman did not complete Ballotpedia’s 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Fetterman’s campaign website stated the following:

2018

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia’s candidate surveys

John Fetterman participated in Ballotpedia’s candidate survey on April 12, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and John Fetterman’s responses follow below.[10]

2016

The following issues were listed on Fetterman’s campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“

• Inequality in Income and Wealth: As the mayor of a steel town that lost 90% of its population, I know the struggles that middle class families and the working poor face. But it’s not a secret — the majority of Pennsylvanians are working longer hours for lower wages. That’s not the hallmark of a true democracy like the United States, or what we should aspire to. Everybody is better off when everybody is better off.

• Inequality in Health Care: I am a living success story of the Affordable Care Act. As a small-town mayor, my wife and I didn’t have health insurance. After the ACA was passed, we bought our policies on the exchange. Just six months later, my wife took a wrong step and she shattered a bone in her foot. That would have wiped us out financially. We probably wouldn’t even have gotten the care, the surgery and the rehabilitation she needed if President Obama hadn’t taken steps to make health care more affordable.

• Inequality for Women: It is incomprehensible that for every dollar a man makes, a woman only makes 78 cents. The inequality is even more astounding among minorities, with African American women only making 64 cents on the dollar and Hispanic or Latina women making just 53 cents. There is no logical explanation as to why women should earn less than men.

• Inequality in Investing in our Communities and Infrastructure: The United States is one of the most developed countries in the world, and yet our crumbling infrastructure tells a different story. It is inconceivable that we live in such a prosperous, great nation but we have bridges that can’t hold the weight of a bus, and send our children to crumbling schools that are risks to their health and safety.

• Inequality in Education: Across Pennsylvania and this country, we’ve failed at providing our children with equal access to a high quality education. And that’s an absolute shame, because every investment in education we make will pay dividends in society.

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” —John Fetterman’s campaign website, https://johnfetterman.com/issues/inequality-in-income-and-wealth

Notable endorsements

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Noteworthy events

Hospitalization to treat clinical depression (2023)

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On Feb. 16, 2023, Fetterman’s Chief of Staff Adam Jentleson announced the senator had checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to receive treatment for clinical depression.[12] In a statement, Jentleson said, “On Monday, John was evaluated by Dr. Brian P. Monahan, the Attending Physician of the United States Congress. Yesterday, Dr. Monahan recommended inpatient care at Walter Reed. John agreed, and he is receiving treatment on a voluntary basis.”[13]

Fetterman was released from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on March 31 and returned to the Senate on April 17.[14][15]

Campaign donors

2016

Ballot measure activity

The following table details Fetterman’s ballot measure stances available on Ballotpedia:

Ballot measure support and opposition for John Fetterman Ballot measure Year Position Status Pennsylvania Question 1, Legislative Resolution to Extend or Terminate Emergency Declaration Amendment (May 2021) 2021 Opposed[16] a Approved Pennsylvania Question 2, Emergency Declarations Amendment (May 2021) 2021 Opposed[17] a Approved Pennsylvania Question 3, Equal Rights Regardless of Race or Ethnicity Amendment (May 2021) 2021 Supported[18] a Approved

See also

• Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2018

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