Tammy Duckworth was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016, making her the first disabled woman to serve in Congress. The Illinois senator has been a staunch proponent of reproductive rights and ...

Tammy Duckworth is getting candid about years of in vitro fertilization shots. The Illinois senator, 53, appears on a new episode of PEOPLE's podcast Me Becoming Mom, where she opens up about her ...

For Tammy Duckworth, the personal and the political are intertwined. The junior U.S. senator from Illinois has had a life marked by not only overcoming obstacles, but shaping a sharp vision from them.

But some of the most striking and revealing exchanges were with Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, an Iraq War veteran who served in combat as a helicopter pilot. When asked by Duckworth ...