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U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) Has Decided not to Run for Re-election
02 marca, 2015
On March 2, 2015, at Henderson’s Wharf Inn in Fells Point Mikulski announces that 5th Term Will Be Her Last
Senator Mikulski was the first Democratic Senator elected in her own right, and was one of only two women Senators serving when she took office in 1987. On January 5, 2011, she became the longest-serving woman in U.S. Senate history when she was sworn in to the 112th Congress, breaking the record previously held by Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine.) Senator Mikulski has said she shares many things in common with Senator Smith, including a strong belief in constituent service.
On Saturday, March 17, 2012, she surpassed Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers as the longest-serving woman in the U.S. Congress. In 1976, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as the Congresswoman from Maryland’s third district.
Senator Mikulski holds many other “firsts,” including being the first Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, a post she took on December 20, 2012.
Throughout her time in elected office, she has fought uphold the values she learned growing up in East Baltimore.
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