In 1966, Domenici successfully ran for a position on the Albuquerque City Commission and in 1968 was elected Commission Chairman.

Domenici was unsuccessful in his 1970 attempt in New Mexico's governor's race, losing to Democrat Bruce King, 148, 835 to 134, 640.

One of the first issues that Pete Domenici concerned himself with was waterway usage fees in spite of his state lacking any waterway capable of commercial traffic.

The issue greatly assisted Domenici at home, where the railroad industry was big ( railroads competed with barges, and they long wanted to end the " free ride " issue.

Domenici was subsequently re-elected in 1984, 1990, 1996, and 2002 and is the longest-serving senator in his state's history.

On April 24, 2008, Domenici was admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee for " inappropriately " contacting in 2006 one of the nine U. S. attorneys later fired by President Bush.

A possible indictment could have buoyed the re-election hopes of Rep. Heather Wilson ( R-N. M .), who was seeking to replace Domenici when the senator retires after his current term.

The change was introduced by Representatives Fred Upton ( R-MI ) and Edward Markey ( D-MA ) and added to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ; the House had originally approved a motion that would have extended DST even farther from the first Sunday in March to the last Sunday in November, but Senators Jeff Bingaman ( D-NM ) and Pete Domenici ( R-NM ) agreed to scale back the proposal in conference committee due to complaints from farmers and the airline industry.

On October 8, 2007, Chávez announced his candidacy for the U. S. Senate seat that was being vacated by retiring Republican Senator Pete Domenici.

Domenici was born in Florence, from where he graduated in moral philosophy.

Domenici was elected in 1994 for the first time a member of the Italian Parliament for the Chianti-Valdarno constituency and re-elected as a candidate of the Ulivo coalition in 1996.

In 1970, King was elected as governor, defeating Republican Pete Domenici.

In his last major election against Pete Domenici in 1972, Daniels took advantage of his name, which was similar to that of Jack Daniel's, a popular alcoholic beverage.

Jack Daniels was nominated as the Democrat in his place and ran against Republican Pete Domenici, but lost with Domenici winning 54 % of the vote.

The building was completed in 1998 and named in honor of Senator Pete Domenici at a ceremony in 2004.

Pietro Vichi " Pete " Domenici ( born May 7, 1932 ) is an American Republican politician, who served six terms as a United States Senator from New Mexico, from 1973 to 2009, the longest tenure in the state's history.

Leonardo Domenici ( born July 12, 1955 ) is an Italian politician.

Pete Domenici, speaking at an Albuquerque Memorial day event.

Domenici's telephone manners were the subject of a later article in The Albuquerque Journal, which quoted numerous other sources whom Domenici had treated rudely by hanging up after making a point or receiving an unsatisfactory answer.

Domenici later admitted calling Iglesias, though Domenici claimed he never used the word " November " when he called Iglesias about an ongoing Albuquerque courthouse corruption case.

The Pete V. Domenici United States Courthouse is a federal courthouse located in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico.

United States Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico entered into the Congressional Record of the United States a request that Congress and the President join in the proclamation.

In 1972, Domenici successfully ran for a position in the U. S. Senate and became the first New Mexico Republican to be elected to the position in 38 years.

Prior to the 2006 midterm election Domenici called and pressured then-United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico David Iglesias to speed up indictments in a federal corruption investigation that involved at least one former Democratic state senator.

* New Mexico State University's Domenici Institute.

During his career, he joined with Republican U. S. Senator Pete Domenici from New Mexico in introducing legislation that places mental illness under the umbrella of health insurance.

New Mexico senators Pete V. Domenici and Jeff Bingaman effectively reassured Senator Bryan that these issues would be addressed in the 103rd Congress.

Four years later, New Mexico Tech agreed to purchase the town and the surrounding 1200 acres ( 4. 9 km² ) for $ 5 million, using Department of Homeland Security funds secured by Pete Domenici.

* Domenici secures $ 80 million in additional funds to support national security work carried out in New Mexico

Montoya spent the next two years primarily helping Senator Pete Domenici to keep the federal installations in New Mexico open.

While chile, the pod, is sometimes spelled chili, chilli, or chillie elsewhere, U. S. Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico made this state's spelling official by entering it into the Congressional Record.

In addition to assigning Domenici a score of zero for his environmental voting record, the group issued him “ environmental harm demerits ” for what they saw as two particularly irresponsible acts: first, for spearheading efforts to include in federal budget legislation provisions for “ speculative revenues from oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ; second, “ for sponsoring and securing passage of S. 3711, the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, which would perpetuate America ’ s dangerous oil dependence, set a precedent for drilling in sensitive marine waters, and direct a disproportionate share of federal royalty revenues from a public resource to four states .”

* Domenici, Kathy, & Littlejohn, Stephen W. ( 2001 ), Mediation empowerment in conflict management.

Domenici has been an avid proponent of nuclear power and has published two books on the subject: " A Brighter Tomorrow: Fulfilling the Promise of Nuclear Energy " ( Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004 ), which he wrote ; and " Advanced Nuclear Technologies — Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, U. S. Senate " ( Collingdale, Pennsylvania: D I A N E Publishing Company, 1999 ), which he edited.

* Pete Domenici ( R ), 54 %

Domenici also received an exceptionally low environmental rating from the nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters, who claimed in 2003 that “ uring the last decade his voting record has become even more strikingly anti-environmental .” The LCV went on to criticize Domenici for voting in 1995 “ to allow mining companies to ‘ patent ’ ( purchase ) public lands in order to extract minerals from them, without environmental standards, for the ridiculously low ‘ price ’ of $ 5 an acre or less .”

Among the best-known people who have attended the University of Florence are Italian President Alessandro Pertini ; Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini ; Italian political leaders Giorgio La Pira, Leonardo Domenici and Matteo Renzi ; astrophysicist Margherita Hack ; botanist Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli ; immunologist Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli ; philosopher Giacomo Marramao ; poets Margherita Guidacci and Mario Luzi.

Iglesias charged that Domenici and Wilson were pressuring him to wrap up the investigation before that November ’ s elections, a violation of ethics rules.

Rivlin and former Senator Pete Domenici ( R-NM ) were named in January, 2010 to chair a Debt Reduction Task Force, sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D. C ..

The senators on the committee were: Republicans Domenici, Craig, Thomas, Alexander, Murkowski, Burr, Grassley and Democrats Bingaman, Akaka, Dorgan, Wyden, Johnson, and Baucus.

Back in America, he attended the University of Virginia Law School and worked as an attorney and staffer to Senator Pete Domenici in Washington, D. C., before attending the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy to become a priest.