Duckworth returns to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, to certify election results. Ladda Tammy Duckworth s life is full of firsts. The 53-year-old junior U.S. senator from Illinois is the first Thai American woman and the first person born in Thailand to be elected to Congress, and is the second of three Asian American women to serve in the U.S. Senate. Duckworth is the first senator to give birth while in office. Retired Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel Duckworth is also the first woman with a disability elected to Congress and the first female double amputee in the Senate, both due to an insurgent-fired rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) that nearly killed her while she was piloting a helicopter in Iraq.
A state senator wants legislative hearings about a report from the state watchdog examining the handling of the COVID-19 outbreak at the LaSalle Veterans' Home that left dozens of veterans dead.
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A retired Air Force colonel – who’s now a state senator – joins the call for further investigation into what happened at the La Salle veterans’ home, where coronavirus killed three dozen residents.
“In the military, we learned to do hot washes, we learned to do recaps, and we do incident investigations at every step of the way,” said State Sen. Craig Wilcox (R-McHenry). “It’s the only way we truly learn what happened (and) how to get better. The former director knows this, she learned it, and I call on her to come forward. She knows what she should do.”