In 2008, Senator Mark Pryor was elected to serve a second term in the U.S. Senate. Senator Pryor serves on six Senate committees, including the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, the Senate Rules Committee, and the Senate Ethics Committee. Pryor was first elected to public office in 1990 as a member of the Arkansas State House of Representatives. In 1998 he was elected Arkansas’ Attorney General. He received a B.A. in history and his law degree from the University of Arkansas and worked in private legal practice for over ten years. Senator Pryor is serving his fourth year as the honorary chair of the Alliance to Save Energy.
