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| {{Short description|Overview of Barack Obama's United States Senate career}}
| | #REDIRECT [[US Senate career of Barack Obama]] |
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| | name = Barack Obama
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| | image = BarackObamaportrait.jpg
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| | jr/sr = United States Senator
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| | state = [[Illinois]]<!-- please leave this alone -->
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| | term_start = January 3, 2005
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| | term_end = November 16, 2008
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| | alongside = [[Dick Durbin]]
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| | predecessor = [[Peter Fitzgerald (politician)|Peter Fitzgerald]]
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| | successor = [[Roland Burris]]
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| | office2 = Chairman of the [[United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs|Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs]]
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| | term_start2 = January 3, 2007
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| | term_end2 = November 16, 2008
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| | predecessor2 = [[George F. Allen]]
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| | successor2 = [[Jeanne Shaheen]]
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| {{Barack Obama sidebar}}
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| The '''[[United States Senate]] career of [[Barack Obama]]''' began on January 3, 2005, and ended on November 16, 2008.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://obama.senate.gov/about/ |title=About Barack Obama |access-date=January 14, 2008 |work=Barack Obama U.S. Senate Office |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080425044909/http://obama.senate.gov/about/ |archive-date=April 25, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> He resigned his seat in the [[U.S. Senate]] upon being elected [[President of the United States]]. Obama won the seat in an election against [[Alan Keyes]] who replaced Republican Primary election winner [[Jack Ryan (politician)|Jack Ryan]].
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| Prior to his election but after Ryan withdrew from the race, he rose to national prominence by delivering the [[2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address]]. Upon his election, he became the fifth [[African-American]] Senator in [[History of the United States|U.S. history]], the third to have been popularly elected.
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| As a Senator, he served on a variety of committees and chaired the [[United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs]]. His bill sponsorship and voting records indicates that he was a loyalist to the Democratic Party. He was considered to be among the most liberal by various analyses. In his first session ([[109th United States Congress|109th Congress]]), he was involved in [[Illegal immigration to the United States|immigration reform]]. Legislation bearing his name was passed for armament reduction and federal transparency as well as relief aid.
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| In the first year of the [[110th United States Congress|110th Congress]], he worked on lobbying and campaign finance reform, election reform, climate control and troop reduction. In the second year, he legislated for oversight of certain military discharges, Iran divestment and nuclear terrorism reduction, but President [[George W. Bush]] vetoed his legislation for [[State Children's Health Insurance Program]]-related military family job protections.
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