Randal Howard Paul or Rand Paul is an American politician who
has been a Senator from Kentucky since 2011. He and top COVID expert Dr.
Anthony Fauci were embroiled in a heated debate on Tuesday during a Senate
health committee hearing.

Born on January 7, 1963, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he is
the son of former three-time presidential candidate and twelve-term
Representative of Texas, Ron Paul. He went to Baylor University and then
graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine. After that, Paul set up
his ophthalmology practice in Kentucky in 1993 but withdrew from the American
Board of Ophthalmology in 2003 to set up his own National Board of
Ophthalmology.

Paul entered politics in 2010 after declaring himself a
constitutional conservative. He ran for a seat in the United States Senate,
facing Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway. He defeated Conway in the
election by clinching 56% of the vote.

Paul ran as a candidate for the Republican nomination at the
2016 presidential election but could not go very far. He suspended his campaign
in February that year after the Iowa Caucuses where he finished in fifth place.
Less than two months later, he endorsed Donald Trump as the Republican nominee
for the election. Trump won that election to become the 45th
President of the United States.

Paul is mostly described as a libertarian, a term he both
embraced and rejected during his first Senate campaign. He supports term
limits, a balanced budget amendment, and the Read the Bills Act, in addition to
the widespread reduction of federal spending and taxation.