Rand Paul

Background and career

Randal Howard Paul (born January 7, 1963) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he is the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Paul has described himself as a constitutional conservative and a supporter of the Tea Party movement.

Education

Career before Congress

College athletics

• Football source
• Swimming source

Citizenship

citizen by birth in the United States.

Religion

Presbyterian (self-reported in Pew survey of Congress)

Name history and family

Birth name: Randal Howard Paul · Children: 3 · Marriages: 1 · Counts reflect publicly documented information; a missing count means not documented, not zero.

Marital status: Married · Spouse: Kelley Paul

Previously held offices

Not listed.

Campaign fundraising

Raised $8,490,873 in the 2024 cycle and $3,928,654 so far in the 2026 cycle (partial).

Top individual donors, 2024

8,065 other donors gave a total of $3,176,379.

1 donor rows withheld pending verification.

Top individual donors, 2026 (partial)

7,338 other donors gave a total of $2,055,099.

1 donor rows withheld pending verification.

PAC and party committee contributors over $5,000, 2024

Gross receipts from FEC filings, not net of refunds. Industry mappings are the directory's own classification; see methodology.

PAC and party committee contributors over $5,000, 2026 (partial)

Gross receipts from FEC filings, not net of refunds. Industry mappings are the directory's own classification; see methodology.

Outside money

2024

Independent expenditures by super PACs and other outside groups concerning the member. A committee name links to its page here, with its contributors and every member it spent for or against.

Leadership PAC: REINVENTING A NEW DIRECTION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE. No donors met the reporting thresholds.

Joint fundraising committee TEAM RAND: $177,720 allocated to the member across 8 transfers.

2026 (partial)

Independent expenditures by super PACs and other outside groups concerning the member. A committee name links to its page here, with its contributors and every member it spent for or against.

Leadership PAC: REINVENTING A NEW DIRECTION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE. No donors met the reporting thresholds.

Joint fundraising committee TEAM RAND: $225,662 allocated to the member across 8 transfers.

Independent expenditures are reported to the FEC by the spending committee, not the member's campaign. A committee is marked single-candidate when 80% or more of its cycle independent-expenditure dollars concern one candidate. Donors are named only at $50,000 or more to a super PAC or joint fundraising committee. For leadership PACs, individuals are named at $50,000 or more; organizations and PACs at $5,000 or more. The 2026 cycle is still in progress.

Amounts are each donor's net total of itemized contributions across the cycle (primary, general, and runoff elections combined), after subtracting refunds, not single gifts. Receipts marked as received in error, returned, or refunded are excluded, and refunds to the donor are subtracted. Joint-fundraising shares are included: the member committee's itemized share of joint-fundraising proceeds (FEC transaction type 15J) counts toward the donor's total, while the joint fundraising committee's own transfers are not counted separately. Donors are named only when their net cycle total is $1,000 or more; smaller donors appear only in the aggregate count and total below each table. Where a returned receipt of $10,000 or more affects a total, it is noted below the table. Lists cover itemized individual gifts to the member's principal campaign committee only. Employer and occupation are self-reported. The 2026 cycle is still in progress.

Donor figures are net of refunds from the FEC individual-contribution bulk files (2024 and 2026 cycles, each itemization taken at its latest amended version before any exclusion), rebuilt and reconciled row by row against the previous release on 2026-10-02; see methodology for the method and the reconciliation counts.

Money and finances

Estimated net worth

$1,208,047 to $3,319,999 (Annual Report for CY 2025 (filed 08/13/2026)). Earliest on record (2013): $433,036 to $1,869,999. disclosure

Estimates are summed from ranges reported on financial disclosures, so they are approximate. Ranges are wide by design.

Stock trades (last 12 months)

0 trades, estimated volume No trades. As of 2026-09-26. Quiver

STOCK Act disclosures cover the member, spouse, and dependent children, and report amounts as ranges, so volumes are estimates. Null records mean data was not retrieved, never zero trades.

Top assets

Business interests

Disclosed real estate

Primary residences are generally exempt from congressional financial disclosure and do not appear here.

Influence in Congress

Legislative effectiveness

0.40 on the 118th Legislative Effectiveness Score (Senate). thelawmakers.org

Bipartisanship

Lugar Bipartisan Index: -0.63, ranked #69 (118th (first session, 2023)) Lugar Center

Ideology

DW-NOMINATE first dimension: 0.878 (conservative end of the scale), chamber rank #97 of the 119th Congress. Voteview

Interest group ratings

Bills enacted

0 sponsored bills enacted into law in the 119th Congress.

2026 election

District lean

Cook Partisan Voting Index (2025): R+15. Last election margin: 23.61 points (2022). Cook PVI

2026 election

Seat not up for election in 2026.

Notable family

Notable relatives found through systematic public-records searches (~2 queries per member). Absence of a listing means nothing notable was found under this methodology, not that no notable family exists.

Voting record (2026)

243 roll-call votes in 2026 · missed 8.2% · party unity 79.8

Legislation

Sponsored 57 bills and cosponsored 77 bills in the 119th Congress.

Latest statements

• Dr. Rand Paul Introduces Six Penny Plan to Balance the Federal Budget in Five Years September 22, 2026
  WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has introduced the Six Penny Plan, a federal budget resolution that will balance on-budget outlays and revenues within five years by cutting six...
• Senator Rand Paul Offers Amendment to Strip Half-Trillion-Dollar Tax Increase from Russia Sanctions Bill August 7, 2026
  WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) offered an amendment to the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026 striking the Executive Branch's authority to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on an...
• Dr. Rand Paul's Legislation to Lower Drug Prices Unanimously Advances Out of Committee July 23, 2026
  Washington, D.C. - The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee unanimously advanced legislation by U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) to streamline the approval process for...
• NEW DOC DROP: Slack Messages Reveal Proximal Origin Authors Privately Doubted the Science Behind Their Own Paper, Coordinated with Intelligence Community And NIH July 22, 2026
  WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released internal Slack messages exchanged among the authors of The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2, obtained as part of his ongoing COVID-19 origins...
• Chairman Paul Releases Documents Showing CBP Prepared to Question and Search Peter Daszak - Until the FBI Stepped In July 20, 2026
  WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released documents showing that U.S. Customs and Border Protection prepared a formal targeting action to question and search Peter Daszak,...

Latest official press releases and statements from the member's official site. This section requires periodic refresh; always check the source site for the newest items.

Social following

Office total: 2.0M · Personal total: no counts retrieved · Combined: 2.0M

Collected 2026-09-29. Office accounts are the member's official congressional accounts; personal accounts are their own campaign/personal accounts. Totals sum only accounts with a retrieved count and are never zero-filled. X counts are approximate (logged-out page variance). A missing account means none was verified, not that none exists.

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

No documented caucus memberships.

Staff

Chief of staff

William E Henderson · (202) 224-4343

• Deputy Chief of Staff at Sen. Rand Paul (04/01/11-03/31/13) source

Communications director

Andrew T. Carmichael · (202) 224-4343

Staff data from House and Senate payroll filings; roles can change and filings can lag.

Offices

Washington, D.C. office

295 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4343

District/state offices

Connections

Connections are derived from documented public records: family ties, shared schools, shared employers, fraternities and sororities, and staff career histories. Committee ties are excluded here and shown on committee pages.

Official links

Official website · Contact form · Wikipedia