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Date: March 21, 2005
Contact: Jan Horne, Public Info. Coordinator, (480) 312-2636
Senator Jon Kyl will be the featured speaker at the March 31 Mayor and City Council
Breakfast. The program, which begins at 7:30 a.m. with a continental breakfast followed by
an 8 to 9 a.m. program, will be at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E.
Second St. The program is free and open to the public.
Jon Kyl was elected to the U.S. Senate from Arizona in 1994 and re-elected in 2000,
after four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves on the Senate Finance
Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, and on the
Judiciary Committee (judiciary.senate.gov 
), where he chairs the
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security (kyl.senate.gov/legis_center/subcom.cfm
). As chairman of the
Senate Republican Policy Committee (rpc.senate.gov ), he is one of six members
of the Senate Republican Leadership.
Before his public service, Kyl practiced law at Jennings, Strouss & Salmon in
Phoenix. In 1985 he served as chairman of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce. Born in
Oakland, Neb., Kyl received both his bachelor’s and law degrees from the University
of Arizona. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was editor-in-chief of the Arizona Law Review.
He and his wife Caryll have two children, Kristine Kyl Gavin and John Kyl, and four
grandchildren.
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