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Newly former Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Tom Carper (D-Del.) may be departing Congress, but he told The Hill he’ll “never retire” and plans to continue working on ...
Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware announced Monday that he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. Carper's announcement paves the way for a wide-open contest for the ...
Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware announced Monday that he will not seek re-election next year after more than 20 years in the Senate.
Thomas Richard Carper (born January 23, 1947) is an American politician and former military officer who served from 2001 to 2025 as a United States senator from Delaware. A member of the Democratic Party , Carper served from 1983 to 1993 in the United States House of Representatives and from 1993 to 2001 as the 71st governor of Delaware .
Senate Minority Whip: Dick Durbin: IL: January 3, 2025 Party whip since January 3, 2005: Chair of the Senate Democratic Steering and Policy Committee: Amy Klobuchar: MN: January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Democratic Strategic Communications Committee: Cory Booker: NJ: January 3, 2025: Vice Chairs of the Senate Democratic Caucus: Mark Warner ...
California elects United States senators to class 1 and class 3. The state has been represented by 48 people in the Senate since it was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850. Its U.S. senators are Democrats Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. Dianne Feinstein was the state's longest serving senator, who served from 1992 until her death in 2023.
Chairman Carper takes seriously his job of protecting the health of communities across the country and doing so in a way that understands the needs and impacts on the ground.”
This has been attributed to California's heavy Democratic lean and Republican donors' wariness of the high cost of running a statewide campaign in California; GOP strategist Duane Dichiara estimated that a Republican would need at least $80 million to run a viable Senate campaign. Additionally, California's top-two primary system may allow two ...