Unusual Path to the Senate

Majority Leader Shares His Life Story

By Daniel Heim
Roll Call Staff

May 6, 2008

Probably not too many Senators grew up in a shack made of railroad ties in a town where prostitution anchored the local economy. Or received death threats from mobsters. Or owe much of their political career to a high school teacher who became their best friend.

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