Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) told the Chicago Sun Times that she “is expecting her second child, another girl, in late April, a few weeks after she turns 50.”
“The birth will make Duckworth the nation’s first senator to have a baby while serving in the chamber.”
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