“Congress must work together to alleviate the financial pressure that energy prices are putting on working families and businesses.  We must explore short-term solutions, while also developing implementing a long-term strategy that focuses on renewable energy, responsible domestic drilling, conservation and new energy technologies.”  (Office of Senator Blanche Lincoln - Press Release 8/8/08)

On November 3, 1998, Senator Blanche L. Lincoln made history when she became the youngest woman ever elected to the United States Senate at the age of 38. She serves on the Senate Committee on Finance; the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; and the Senate Special Committee on Aging.

Lincoln was first elected to public office in 1992 as U.S. Representative for Arkansas's First Congressional District. Hailing from a seventh-generation Arkansas farm family, Lincoln is a Helena, Arkansas, native where her mother Martha Kelly Lambert still resides. Lincoln received a bachelor's degree from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia and studied at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Senator Lincoln and her husband, Dr. Steve Lincoln, are the proud parents of twin boys, Reece and Bennett.

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