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1 day ago · Her combined 26 years makes her the longest serving woman in the Oregon Legislature, though Ginny Burdick holds the record for Senate tenure by a woman at 25 years.
May 7, 2024 · Tammy Duckworth. Illinois' Tammy Duckworth became the first disabled female veteran to earn election to the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as the second female Asian...
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4 days ago · In November 2022, Dianne Feinstein became the longest-serving female senator in history, surpassing Barbara Mikulski, having served for 30 years. Feinstein was retiring at the end of her last term, scheduled for January 3, 2025, but died on September 29, 2023, before her term ended.
4 days ago · Senators. Each state in the United States elects two senators, regardless of the state’s population. Senators serve six-year terms with staggered elections. Americans in the United States’s six territories do not have senators. Illinois’s senators are: Senior Senator.
May 19, 2024 · Now she's trying to save him. Tammy Duckworth (born March 12, 1968, Bangkok, Thailand) is an American politician who was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat in 2016 and began representing Illinois the following year. She previously was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (2013–17).
2 days ago · January 3, 2017. Illinois's current congressional delegation in the 118th Congress consists of its two senators, both of whom are Democrats, and its 17 representatives: 14 Democrats and 3 Republicans . The current dean of the Illinois delegation is Senator Dick Durbin, having served in the Senate since 1997 and in Congress since 1983.
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3 days ago · 4. Total. 100. Independent Sens. Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont caucus with the Democratic Party; [1] [2] [3] independent Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia do not caucus with the Democrats, but are "formally aligned with the Democrats for committee purposes."
