Peters, Gary C.

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{"tldr": "<cite index=\"14-26\">Gary Peters is the senior United States senator from Michigan since 2015</cite>, a <cite index=\"14-26\">Democrat</cite>. <cite index=\"1-8\">He is the ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in the 119th Congress</cite>, the Senate's principal oversight body.", "summary": "<cite index=\"14-26\">Gary Peters is the senior United States senator from Michigan, a seat he has held since 2015</cite>. <cite index=\"1-8\">He is the ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in the 119th Congress</cite>. As ranking member of the minority party, Peters leads Democratic opposition and oversight efforts on the committee, which <cite index=\"12-1\">oversees the Department of Homeland Security and is the Senate's top oversight committee</cite>. The position gives him significant power to shape investigations, hold hearings, and direct the committee's response to executive branch actions.\n\n<cite index=\"1-10\">Peters was born on December 1, 1958, in Pontiac, Michigan</cite>. <cite index=\"1-1\">Before his election to Congress, Peters served in the United States Navy Reserve, spent 22 years as an investment advisor, and worked briefly in academia</cite>. <cite index=\"1-2\">He was elected to the Rochester Hills City Council in 1991 and represented the 14th district in the Michigan Senate from 1995 to 2002</cite>. <cite index=\"1-4\">He was then appointed commissioner of the Michigan Lottery by Governor Jennifer Granholm, serving from 2003 to 2008</cite>. <cite index=\"3-19,3-20\">He was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008, where he served on the Financial Services Committee, and while in his first term and one of the most junior members of the House, the Speaker appointed him to serve on the conference committee that wrote and finalized the sweeping Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act</cite>. <cite index=\"1-5\">In 2014, Peters was elected to the United States Senate, the only non-incumbent Democrat to win a Senate election that year</cite>.\n\