1. Claudine Schneider is an American politician and executive who served five terms as a Republican US representative from Rhode Island from 1981 to 1991.
16 Facts About Claudine Schneider
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Claudine Schneider was the first, and to date only, woman elected to Congress from Rhode Island.
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Claudine Schneider studied at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and Rosemont College.
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Claudine Schneider attended the University of Rhode Island Program in Community Planning.
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Claudine Schneider was the founder of the Rhode Island Committee on Energy in 1973, and was appointed executive director of the Conservation Law Foundation in 1974.
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Claudine Schneider became Federal coordinator of Rhode Island Coastal Zone Management Program in 1978.
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Claudine Schneider worked as a producer and host of a public affairs television program in Providence from 1978 to 1979.
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In 1984, Claudine Schneider introduced legislation to halt all fishing for striped bass to protect dwindling stocks of this popular sport fish along the US Atlantic coast for three years.
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Claudine Schneider was the prime Republican House sponsor of the Ocean Dumping Ban Act of 1988 to prohibit dumping of sewage sludge and industrial waste into the ocean after 1991.
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In 1986, Claudine Schneider organized a series of television debates and exchanges between Members of Congress and the Soviet parliament through satellite hookup between the capitals of the two superpowers.
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In 1988, Claudine Schneider sponsored legislation requiring US cooperation with foreign countries on biodiversity and environmental protection.
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Claudine Schneider's bill was signed into law on October 25,1988 by President Ronald Reagan.
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In 1992, Claudine Schneider co-founded Energia Global, an international energy efficiency and renewable energy development company with a joint venture in Costa Rica, helping make it one of a handful of nearly carbon-neutral countries.
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Claudine Schneider has served on the boards of various companies and advocacy groups, and her consulting clients have included National Grid and other utilities, EPA, DOE, INBio, the Policy Center for Marine Biosciences and Technology, Wheelabrator Technologies as well as the Smithsonian Institution and the US Air Force.
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Claudine Schneider has provided keynote speeches at events around the world, occasionally in French or Spanish.
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In 2023 Schneider was one of six petitioners represented by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington in Trump v Anderson, a successful case before the Colorado Supreme Court, ruling Donald Trump ineligible for the 2024 presidential election on grounds of violating the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.