Pat Toomey honored a term-limit campaign promise and left Congress in 2005.
In 2010, The former Lehigh County U.S. Rep. is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. Toomey served 3 terms in the U.S. House, from 1999 to 2005.
After leaving Congress, Toomey became President of the limited government, free-enterprise advocacy group, Club for Growth. He resigned in 2009 to launch a Senate campaign. About 2 weeks later his would-be Republican primary opponent, Senator Arlen Specter, switched parties. At the time Specter said the change would "enable [him] to be reelected.
Specter would go on to lose the 2010 Democratic primary. Toomey won his party's nomination.
Pat Toomey is 48, married, with 3 children.
