Mark Pryor
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- This article is about the United States Senator. For the Major League Baseball pitcher with a similar name, see Mark Prior.
Mark Lunsford Pryor (born January 10, 1963) is a politician in Arkansas.
As of 2005 he is currently a Democratic Senator for the state of Arkansas, having defeated incumbent Republican Tim Hutchinson in 2002. He was the only Democrat to defeat a Republican incumbent in that election cycle. Pryor currently sits on the Commerce Committee, Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, and the Select Committee for Ethics.
On May 23, 2005, Pryor was one of fourteen senators to forge a compromise on the Democrats' use of the judicial filibuster, thus blocking the Republican leadership's attempt to implement the so-called "nuclear option". Under the agreement, the Democrats would retain the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an "extraordinary circumstance", and the three most conservative Bush appellate court nominees (Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor) would receive a vote by the full Senate.
Pryor is one of the few Democrats in the Senate to oppose legal abortion.
Background
Before the election, he was the state Attorney General, from 1999. He was also a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1991-1994. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2000.
He is the son of former Senator and governor David H. Pryor. He has a son named Adams and a daughter named Porter.
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