Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996.

奥巴马于1996年成为伊利诺斯州参议员。

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Voted for an Illinois gas tax holiday while in the Illinois State Senate.

担任伊利·诺伊的州参议员时曾投票支持伊利·诺伊的汽油税假期。

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So, this week the state Senate approved a bill moving California's primary to February 5th.

所以本周，加州参议院批准了一项法案将加利福尼亚的初选移到2月5日。

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He served for 8 years in the Illinois state Senate before voters elected him to the United States Senate in 2004.

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"This is ground zero for the nation." Democrats in the state Senate fled to the neighboring Midwestern state of Illinois.

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In the summer of eighteen fifty-eight, two candidates campaigned across the state of Illinois for a seat in the United States Senate.

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In Montana, state Senate President Jon Tester, a Democrat, was barely leading three-term incumbent Republican Sen.

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First, Schiff is an established officeholder whose state Senate district includes all of the congressional district.

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Two years later, however, Schiff ran for the state Senate in an open seat and won.

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