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WOODBINE — A special guest, Sen. Kenneth D. McClintock, president of the Senate of Puerto Rico,
is expected to attend the Hispanic Festival in Lincoln Park, hosted by the Puerto Rican Action Committee of Southern New Jersey from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. Sept. 13, according to David Rodriguez, executive director of PRAC, and a borough councilman.
McClintock, 51, was born in London, England. He is the son of on architect from Texas and a Puerto Rican teacher, both deceased.
McClintock obtained his Juris Doctor in 1980 from Tulane University, New Orleans, after having pursued undergraduate studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
From 1997-2000, he chaired the Committee on Government and Federal Affairs, one of the most powerful committees of the Senate. He was elected the Democratic Party National Committeeman in 2000, and that same year, he co-chaired Al Gore’s campaign in Puerto Rico for the President of the United States.
In 1999, McClintock was elected the first Hispanic Chairman of the Council of State Governments (CSG). This organization represents the three government branches of all states and territories. He chaired the Parliamentary Conferences of the Americas (COPA), Spanish acronym) in 2000, which represents all the national and subnational legislatures of the Western Hemisphere.
In 1971, at the age of 14, he was appointed by the then President Richard M. Nixon, delegate to the White House Conference on Youth. In 1978, at the age of 21, he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the National Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
McClintock has had a brilliant legislative career he is the author of more than 900 Bills, of which more than 140 have been enacted into law. Among these are: the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Reform Act the Puerto Rico Government Digital Act. He is also the author of the law that created the Fernós Córdova Congressional Intership Program as it is known at present.
This program has sponsored more than 400 Puerto Rican university students to work as interns for a semester with members of the United States Congress.
In 2000, he served his third term and was the Floor Leader of the New Progressive Party delegation in the Senate, Since January 2005, he is President of the Senate of Puerto Rico.
McClintock in married to María E. Batista and has two children, Kevin, born in 1995 and Stephanie, born in 1997.
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