Tammy Duckworth

Tammy Duckworth

Tammy Duckworth is a Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois. Her official Senate biography records that she was elected to the Senate in 2016 after two terms representing Illinois's 8th Congressional District in the House.

Duckworth's official biography describes her as an Iraq War veteran, Purple Heart recipient and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It records 23 years in the Reserve Forces before retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel in 2014.

Her current Senate committee page lists service on Armed Services, Commerce, Science and Transportation, Veterans' Affairs and Foreign Relations. Current votes and sponsorships remain in the automatic public-record layer rather than being characterized editorially.

Current / reviewed roles

• U.S. Senator for Illinois
• Former U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 8th District
• Former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Current and reviewed institutional roles

• Senate Armed Services Committee
• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
• Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
• Senate Committee on Foreign Relations