Carol Moseley-Braun's was elected to the U S Senate in 1992 after defeating Senator Alan Dixon in a Democratic primary.
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19 Facts About Carol Moseley-Braun
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Carol Moseley-Braun's was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 U S presidential election; she withdrew from the race prior to the Iowa caucuses.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's placed fourth in a field of six candidates, losing the February 2011 election to Rahm Emanuel.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's attended Ruggles School for elementary school, and she attended Parker High School in Chicago.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's became the first African-American woman to serve as assistant majority leader in that body.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's was backed by the political coalition from the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago that had previously backed the campaigns of Harold Washington and Jesse Jackson.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's was the first woman to serve on the Senate Finance Committee.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's voted for the 1993 budget package and against the welfare reform laws passed in 1996, but on many other matters she was more conservative.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's voted contrary to the interests of the more populist wing of the party by voting for the Freedom to Farm Act and the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's was strongly pro-choice, voting against the ban on partial-birth abortions and the restrictions on funding in military bases for abortions.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's voted against the death penalty and in favor of gun control measures.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's delivered a eulogy for Thurgood Marshall in January 1993.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's subsequently defended Abacha's human rights record in Congress.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's compared Will to a Ku Klux Klansman, saying: "I mean this very sincerely from the bottom of my heart: He can take his hood and put it back on again, as far as I'm concerned".
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Carol Moseley-Braun's had, in the days leading up to this announcement, made her first campaign-season visits to the early primary and caucus states of New Hampshire, Iowa, and South Carolina.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's was particularly critical of United States attorney general John Ashcroft's expansion law enforcement powers.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's accused Emanuel of having numerous times voted against Congressional Black Caucus proposals that would have assisted lower-income families.
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Carol Moseley-Braun's expressed interest in holding some other role in his administration.
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