She is the longest-serving woman in Congress. — -- Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Maryland, the longest-serving woman in Congressional history, announced today that she will retire. Mikulski, who was ...

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), the longest-serving woman in the U.S. Congress, announced Monday that her current term — her fifth one, ending January 2017 — will be her last.“I had to decide whether ...

She is known as the dean of the Senate among her women colleagues. She is often described as feisty. And after she became the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, The New York Times reported ...

Barbara Mikulski, a good friend to Anne Arundel County during her many years in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, will receive an award for effective governance and a lifelong ...

Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) has intentions of succeeding Maryland’s Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who announced earlier this month that she will not be running after her current term ends in 2017.

Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski is set to become the first woman to chair the prestigious Senate Appropriations Committee, a position left open this week by the death of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye. A ...

Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski announced Wednesday that she will support the Iran nuclear agreement, giving the White House the final vote needed to protect the accord from a Republican-led effort to ...

And now news of the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress who will not be running for re-election next year. Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski made that surprise announcement yesterday in ...