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Ladda Tammy Duckworth [3] (born March 12, 1968) is an American politician and retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented Illinois's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from ...
Official Twitter account for U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth. My office is your resource. If you need help from a federal agency or have questions about legislation, you deserve timely answers — not red tape.
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth is an Iraq War Veteran, Purple Heart recipient and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs who was among the first handful of Army women to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
May 7, 2024 · 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...
Meet Tammy - Tammy Duckworth for U.S. Senate. Tammy Duckworth never expected to end up in politics—but she always knew she wanted to serve her country and promote American ideals and values. Soldier.
Oct 8, 2024 · 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).
Mar 28, 2021 · She may have been the most vulnerable member of Congress when the Capitol was stormed – the senator who had lost both legs in combat in Iraq – but what Tammy Duckworth felt on Jan. 6 wasn't fear.
Nov 9, 2022 · CHICAGO (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth won reelection Tuesday in Illinois, defeating political newcomer and lawyer Kathy Salvi. Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran who lost both legs when her helicopter was shot down in 2004, has served in Congress for nearly a decade.
Tammy Duckworth is a champion for working families, civil rights, environmental justice as well as all of our Veterans and military families. From growing up working to pull her family out of poverty to serving our nation in uniform, Tammy’s life shapes her work in the Senate.
Sep 1, 2020 · In 2004, when US Army Captain Tammy Duckworth, now a senator from Illinois, woke up at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after the Black Hawk helicopter she was co-piloting was shot down in Iraq, she found herself in unrelenting, all-consuming pain.