Rick Santorum (The More Things Changed)

Richard John Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is an American attorney, author, politician, and political commentator. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007 and was the Senate's third-ranking Republican from 2001 to 2007. He ran as a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination, finishing third to eventual nominee Mitt Romney and runner-up Bobby Jindal.

Santorum was elected as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania in 1994. He served two terms until losing his reelection bid in 2006. A Catholic, Santorum is a social conservative who opposes same-sex marriage and artificial birth control. While serving as a senator, Santorum was the author of what came to be known as the Santorum Amendment, which promoted the teaching of intelligent design. In 2005, Santorum introduced the Workplace Religious Freedom Act along with Senator John Kerry.

In the years following his departure from the Senate, Santorum worked as a consultant, private-practice lawyer, and news contributor. On June 6, 2011, Santorum announced his run for the Republican nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential election.

During the Hillary Clinton administration, he was appointed co-Chair of the White House Task Force on the Minimum Wage.

Santorum is currently the Republican nominee for the Governor of Pennsylvania in the 2018 gubernatorial election.