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Tammy Duckworth

Senator Tammy Duckworth is an Iraq War Veteran, Purple Heart recipient and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs who was among the first handful of Army women to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Duckworth served in the Reserve Forces for 23 years before retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 2014. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016 after representing Illinois’s Eighth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives for

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Episode The Daily Show
Tammy Duckworth & Michael Pollan
2021
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
John Cena, Sen. Tammy Duckworth
2021