When Barbara Mikulski was sworn in for her fifth term last week, she will have served in the Senate for more time than the previous longest-serving female senator, Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, who represented Maine for 24 years. She served until 1973.

I interviewed Sen. Mikulski for this story for the revived women’s pages of the Chicago Tribune several years ago. What I loved about writing for the women’s pages is that sources knew that my approach would be female-friendly.

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When Barbara Mikulski was sworn in for her fifth term last week, she will have served in the Senate for more time than the previous longest-serving female senator, Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, who represented Maine for 24 years. She served until 1973.

I interviewed Sen. Mikulski for this story for the revived women’s pages of the Chicago Tribune several years ago. What I loved about writing for the women’s pages is that sources knew that my approach would be female-friendly.

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