HOPE was first proposed to White House chief of staff John Sununu in June 1989 to create enterprise zones, increase subsidies for low-income renters, expand social services for the homeless and elderly, and enact tax changes to help first-time home buyers.

Sununu was the youngest member of the Senate for his entire six-year term.

Sununu, one of eight siblings, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Nancy ( née Hayes ) and former Governor of New Hampshire and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu.

Sununu was one of only three senators whose voting record received a score of 100 % from the fiscally conservative Club for Growth, which in February 2007 endorsed his bid for re-election.

In 2007, Sununu was the lead Republican co-sponsor of the Clean Air Planning Act of 2007 which sought to address air quality and climate change by establishing a schedule to reduce harmful emissions from power plants — in particular, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — as well as decrease carbon dioxide emissions through a cap-and-trade system.

In January 2006, at a hearing in front of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on the Broadcast Flag, Sununu was one of the very few present to criticize the legislation, saying " In all cases previous technological advancements in the US, we didn't need to step in with a significant statutory government-regulated mandate on technology that consumers use to enjoy this material ".

On July 7, 2010, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced that Sununu was joining the firm as an adjunct senior policy advisor.

Sununu was the chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party from 2009 to 2011.

Sununu was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of Victoria ( née Dada ) and John Saleh Sununu, an international film distributor of Palestinian descent < ref >

Somewhat atypically, he was, for 19 days in January 2009, the Baby of the Senate, despite not having previously held that distinction during his first term, because of the defeat of the younger John E. Sununu ( elected in the same year as Pryor ).

In late 1991, Buchanan left the program to pursue the Republican Party nomination for the presidency, and was replaced by John Sununu in the conservative seat.

Shaheen ran for the United States Senate in 2002, but was narrowly defeated by Republican challenger John E. Sununu.

On June 22, 2006 Sen. John E. Sununu offered an amendment to strike the broadcast and radio flag, but this failed and the broadcast-flag amendment was approved by the Commerce committee.

Rudman, along with John H. Sununu, was a key factor in the appointment of Rudman's personal friend, Supreme Court Justice David Souter, to both the federal circuit and the Supreme Court.

In 2002, Smith was defeated in the Republican primary by John E. Sununu and moved to Sarasota, Florida, after his defeat to sell real estate.

In February 2009, with Martinez having announced that he would retire from the Senate in January 2011, Smith was again considering running for the seat, though it has also been reported that he is considering a return to New Hampshire to run for the Senate seat there, especially if his old nemesis John E. Sununu ( who was defeated for re-election in 2008 ) seeks the seat.

John H. Sununu later indicated that the administration wanted to refrain from talking about the concept until Soviet collapse was more clear.

Buckey briefly ran for the Democratic nomination to challenge New Hampshire Senator John E. Sununu, a first term Republican, when he was up for re-election in 2008.

Senate Bill 1047 was introduced on May 17, 2005, by Senator John E. Sununu with over 70 co-sponsors.

The election was observed by a number of international observers, including former President Jimmy Carter and U. S. Senators Joe Biden and John E. Sununu.

In 1999, New Hampshire's Christian Coalition gave " pro-family " awards to both New Hampshire Representatives, Sununu and Charles Bass, honoring the vote by both men to impeach President Bill Clinton.

Sununu cited his anger with the mismanagement by Gonzales and the lack of trustworthiness by GOP Senators towards Gonzales.

In the 2008 election cycle, aggressive ads paid for by the USCC attacked a number of Democratic congressional candidates ( such as Minnesota's DFL Senate candidate Al Franken ) and supported a number of Republican candidates including John Sununu, Gordon Smith, Roger Wicker, Saxby Chambliss and Elizabeth Dole.

Equally, a provocative attempt by Sen. Carl Levin to shut the door on the nuclear option by obtaining a ruling from the chair – at that moment, Senator John E. Sununu – that the filibuster had been yielded as constitutional by the compromise, failed ; the Republican leadership, thus, retained the nuclear option.

The Security and Freedom Enhancement ( SAFE ) Act is legislation proposed by Senators Larry Craig ( R-ID ), John E. Sununu ( R-NH ) and Richard Durbin ( D-IL ) which would add checks and balances to the USA PATRIOT Act.

Senator John E. Sununu ( R ) of New Hampshire said, after Lott's election as Senate Minority Whip, " He understands the rules.

In 2002, Sununu ran for a United States Senate seat from New Hampshire.

To quote the Minneapolis Star Tribune, " Nearly every potentially vulnerable Senate Republican, from Norm Coleman Minnesota to Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and John Sununu of New Hampshire, has signed on to the legislation.

She then served as Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics, before resigning to run again for the U. S. Senate in the 2008 election, defeating Sununu in a rematch.

Forced to yield his powers to the president of the Senate, Vesta M. Roy, who became acting governor, he died a few days before the inauguration of his successor, John H. Sununu.

A long proponent of technology, in January 2007, Sununu called for a permanent ban on taxes of Internet connections and online sales.

Sununu currently sits on the Board of Managers of ConvergEx Holdings, a holding company for BNY ConvergEx Group, an affiliate of Bank of New York Mellon, which holds a 33. 8 % stake in BNY ConvergEx Group.

Novak returned to the show alternating with Sununu on the right.

The Wall Street Journal later editorialized about the appointment, saying: " Mr. Rudman, the man who helped put liberal jurist David Souter on the high court " and who in his " Yankee Republican liberalism " took " pride in recounting how he sold Mr. Souter to gullible White House chief of staff John Sununu as a confirmable conservative.

Sununu called for a tougher federal regulator for government sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and with Senator Tim Johnson ( D-SD ), he filed a dramatic overhaul of regulation of the insurance industry.

In October 2006, Sununu voted against a portion of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that would suspend the right of habeas corpus for non-citizen detainees.

On March 14, 2007, Sununu became the first Republican senator to call for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales after a controversy over U. S. Attorney firings.

In July 2005, Sununu shaved his head to show solidarity with Senator Arlen Specter, who had lost his hair due to chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease.

* John H. Sununu, Governor of New Hampshire ( 1983-1989 ) and White House Chief of Staff for George H. W. Bush ( 1989-1991 )

John Edward Sununu ( born September 10, 1964 ) is a former Republican ( GOP ) United States Senator from New Hampshire, of Lebanese ancestry.

He is the son of former New Hampshire Governor John H. Sununu.

Sununu is a regular op-ed contributor to the Boston Globe.

John Sununu is the name of two U. S. politicians:

He is the father of John E. Sununu, a former senator from New Hampshire.