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Created by washingtonpost on Jan 4, 2011

Last updated: 01/04/11 at 07:13 PM

• Mikulski breaks record
  Jan 5, 2011

  Senator Mikulski becomes the longest-serving female Senator in U.S. history, as well as the first woman to serve in both the House and the Senate and the first woman on numerous Congressional committees.

• Mikulski wins 5th term
  Nov 2, 2010

  Senator Mikulski defeated Republican Eric Wargotz, a commissioner in Queen Anne's County, positioning her to become the longest-running female Senator in U.S. history.
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2010110206423.html

• Opponent calls Mikulski "dinosaur"
  Sep 2, 2010

  As 74-year-old Mikulski geared up for a fifth Senatorial bid, one Republican adversary ran ads depicting her as a dinosaur.
  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/annapolis/2010/09/mikulski_opponent_compares_her.html

• Speculations about retirement
  Jul 1, 2010

  From The Washington Post's Post Partisan blog: Maryland political blogosphere has gone berserk in the last 24 hours with the rumor that Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D) is planning to retire, adding to the Democrats’ headaches about keeping control of the Senate.
  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/02/mikulski_another_dem_retiremen.html

• CIA and cybersecurity
  2001

  Senator Mikulski was appointed to the Senate Select Committee On Intelligence, which oversees all intelligence activities of the United States government. She went on to advocate for Maryland as a national cybersecurity center, helping bring U.S. Cyber Command to Fort Meade.
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/11/AR2010011103663.html

• "A pivotal year for women in the Senate"
  1992

  Mikluski was easily re-elected in 1992 (and again in 1998, 2004 and 2010). She noted that 1992 was a pivotal year for women in the Senate, as she was re-elected and four other female Democratic candidates won seats.
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/04/AR2011010402848.html

• "No" on Desert Storm
  1991

  Mikulski is one of only 11 senators to have voted against the use of force in Iraq in both 1991 and 2002.
  http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000702/key-votes/

• Appropriations Committee
  1987

  Senator Mikulski became the first female Democratic member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/04/AR2011010402848.html

• Senate-bound
  Jan 1, 1987

  After four easy re-elections to the House, Mikulski moved to the Senate in 1987. She was the first Democratic woman to be elected to the Senate without succeeding her husband or father.
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/04/AR2011010402848.html

• Maryland's new Congresswoman
  1976

  After an unsuccessful Senate bid in 1974, Mikulski was elected to the House in 1976 from Maryland's 3rd Congressional District, which she went on to represent for 10 years.
  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/annapolis/2009/05/senator_barbara_mikulski_is_de.html

• Baltimore City Council
  1971

  Mikulski built on her success fighting to block an interstate highway project through an historic East Baltimore neighborhood and won a seat on the Baltimore City Council. Pictured: homes in the 300 block of East 23 1/2 street in the early 1970's.
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49895-2004Oct20_3.html

• Mikulski makes a name for herself
  1970

  From The Washington Post: In 1970, the future senator Barbara Mikulski, then a young Baltimore politician, warned in the New York Times: 'The ethnic American feels unappreciated for the contribution he makes to society. In many ways he is treated like the machine he operates or the pencil he pushes.'
  http://blog.washingtonpost.com/citizen-k-street/chapters/chapter_3/