Headline Roundup • March 2nd, 2015
Mikulski Retiring
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This is genuinely surprising. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) – who has served in Congress longer than any other woman in American history – announced today she is calling it quits after 2016.
“Service for me is about solving problems, helping my constituents, making sure that they not only get by, but they get ahead,” she said at a press conference in Baltimore, Maryland Monday morning. “Now, in 2016, my reelection would be on the horizon. I have thought long and hard about the next two years and I had to...
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the longest serving female senator in history, will retire at the end of her term.
The Maryland Democrat made the announcement Monday morning in her hometown of Baltimore.
Mikulski, 78, is known as the "Dean" of the Senate women -- helping forge bipartisan relationships for decades that often result in compromise. Until Democrats lost control of the Senate, she was the c
New York Times (News)
Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, the animated and occasionally irascible Democrat from Maryland who rose from being a community organizer to become the longest-serving woman in Congress, announced on Monday that she would retire when her term ends in 2017.
The surprising decision came just a few months after Republicans gained control of the Senate, reducing Ms. Mikulski from chairwoman to of the powerful Appropriations Committee, where she had been the first woman to lead the panel, to ranking member.
Ms. Mikulski, 78, announced her decision to not seek a sixth...
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