Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., carries her baby Maile Pearl Bowlsbey after they went to the Senate floor to vote, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 19, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Senate and a rule change allowing newborns of members into the chamber (all times local): 
 
 2:44 p.m. 
 
 Sen. Tammy Duckworth and daughter Maile have made Senate history. 
 
 The Illinois Democrat brought her daughter, in a pink hat, onto the Senate floor under new rules that permitted it. Duckworth already is the only senator to have given birth while serving in the Senate. Maile, born April 9, is the first senator's baby to be allowed on the chamber floor. 
 
 The history was made under a new rule passed a day earlier that permitted newborns of senators on the floor during votes. The Republican-controlled Senate held the vote open so Duckworth and Maile could adhere to the new rule. Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran and double-amputee, arrived in a wheelchair with Maile on her lap, voted no with a downturned thumb, and laughed. Her colleagues crowded around to see. 
 
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 12:38 a.m. 
 
 Not just anybody can come onto the floor of the Senate — not even babies. Prompted by the first sitting senator with a newborn, the Senate has decided to allow the babies of its members into the chamber, but not before some coaxing. 
 
 Illinois Democrat Tammy Duckworth gave birth to a daughter on April 9. Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar says private assurances that babies wouldn't disrupt the Senate were offered to members of both parties. 
 
 Still, there were reservations. Kansas Republican Pat Roberts noted that a senator could vote from a nearby lounge and said allowing babies on the floor wasn't necessary. Utah Republican Orrin Hatch asked, "What if there are 10 babies on the floor of the Senate?" 
 
 In the end, no senator objected to the rules change. ||||| After the Senate on Wednesday voted unanimously to allow babies in the Senate chamber, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) brought her newborn to the floor for a vote on Jim Bridenstine's confirmation as NASA Administrator. Before making her way down to the chamber, Duckworth—who became the first senator to give birth while in-office—tweeted Maile Pearl’s planned outfit for her Senate floor debut. “I made sure she has a jacket so she doesn’t violate the Senate floor dress code (which requires blazers),” she wrote. “I’m not sure what the policy is on duckling onesies, but I think we’re ready.” On her way down to the vote, she told reporters, “About time, huh? She’s pretty young to be making history.” When asked how she felt after the vote, Duckworth said, “It’s amazing, and it’s about time.” ||||| “Bryan, Abigail and I couldn’t be happier to welcome little Maile Pearl as the newest addition to our family,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth said in a statement Monday. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo Sen. Duckworth gives birth to daughter 
 
 Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) delivered her second daughter on Monday — making history as the first U.S. senator to give birth while in office. 
 
 Duckworth named her daughter Maile Pearl Bowlsbey, after her husband Bryan Bowlsbey’s great aunt, who was an army officer and a nurse who served during World War II, the senator said in a statement. The Illinois senator has one other daughter, Abigail. 
 
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 “Bryan, Abigail and I couldn’t be happier to welcome little Maile Pearl as the newest addition to our family,” Duckworth said in the statement. 
 
 “We’re also so grateful for the love and support of our friends and family, as well as our wonderful medical teams for everything they’ve done to help us in our decades-long journey to complete our family,” she continued. 
 
 Prior to being elected to the Senate in 2016, Duckworth served two terms in the House of Representatives. 
 
 Duckworth, 50, served in the Illinois and U.S. Departments of Veterans Affairs, and retired from the Army in 2014 as a lieutenant colonel. While serving in Iraq in 2004 as a helicopter pilot, she lost both of her legs and partial use of her right arm when her aircraft was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. 
 
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 Duckworth also noted in her statement that being a working mother has led her to advocate on behalf of working families. 
 
 “Parenthood isn’t just a women’s issue, it’s an economic issue and one that affects all parents — men and women alike,” she said in the statement. “As tough as juggling the demands of motherhood and being a Senator can be, I’m hardly alone or unique as a working parent, and my children only make me more committed to doing my job and standing up for hardworking families everywhere.” ||||| U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth is expecting her second child, she announced Tuesday. 
 
 “Northwestern Medicine Fertility strikes again,” Duckworth, who’s been vocal about her family’s use of assisted reproductive measures, told me Tuesday afternoon. 
 
 Duckworth will turn 50 in March. She and her husband, Bryan Bowlsbey, have a daughter, Abigail O'kalani Bowlsbey, who was born in November 2014. Their second child, a girl, is due in April. 
 
 “It’s a terrible thing, but I’m listed as a geriatric mother,” she said with a laugh. “It’s called a geriatric pregnancy on all of my medical charts. I don’t let that bother me though. I think 50-year-old moms are the new 40-year-old moms.” 
 
 Duckworth will be the first woman to give birth while serving in the U.S. Senate, though not the first to do so while serving in Congress. 
 
 U.S. Rep. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, D-Calif., whose daughter was born in 1973, was the first woman to give birth as a member of Congress. U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash, has had three children since being elected to Congress in 2004. 
 
 Kirsten Gillibrand gave birth to a son in 2008, while serving as a U.S. representative for New York’s 20th Congressional District. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2009. 
 
 Duckworth, herself, had her first child while she was serving in the U.S. House. 
 
 “I feel great,” she said. “I was just able to go on a congressional delegation to Korea and Japan. I went up to the (Demilitarized Zone) and had lots of good meetings about the threat of war with North Korea and came home to a major policy speech at Georgetown (University) on North Korea and nuclearization and went right into this (government) shutdown fight. 
 
 “You’ve got to keep working,” she said. “But I’m healthy. I’m well-monitored, and the doctors say I’m doing just fine.” 
 
 Duckworth lost both legs in 2004 during the Iraq War when the Black Hawk helicopter she was piloting was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. 
 
 She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016 after representing Illinois’ 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives for two terms. She also served as assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
 
 In September, Duckworth wrote an op-ed for Cosmopolitan, advocating for more lactation rooms in airports and outlining the bipartisan legislation she introduced to make that happen. I asked her whether parenting changes the way she legislates. 
 
 “It does shape the way I represent the people of Illinois and the nation,” she said. “I think back to when I was deployed to Iraq and what it was like for people to leave their children and babies. I know women who left 8-week-old infants. This trip to Japan and Korea was seven days, and it’s the longest I’ve been away from my daughter, and it was horrible. 
 
 “Abigail just turned 3, and we’re talking about preschool,” she continued. “I think about people who don’t have options for preschool. All of these things start to really change my priorities and my focus. I’ve always been supportive of all these issues, but I live them every day now. It’s very humbling.” 
 
 I asked her how it will feel to be the first woman to give birth while serving in the U.S. Senate. 
 
 “Well, it’s about damn time,” she said. “I can’t believe it took until 2018. It says something about the inequality of representation that exists in our country. 
 
 “Men have been having children while they’ve been in office,” she said. “I hope if anything comes out of the Women’s March, it’s that we get more and more women running for office. It would be good to have some company here.” 
 
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– Sen. Tammy Duckworth and daughter Maile have made Senate history, the AP reports. The Illinois Democrat brought her daughter, in a pink hat, onto the Senate floor Thursday under new rules that permitted it. Duckworth already is the only senator to have given birth while serving in the Senate. Maile, born April 9, is the first senator's baby to be allowed on the chamber floor. The history was made under a new rule passed a day earlier that permitted newborns of senators on the floor during votes. The Daily Beast says the vote was to confirm Jim Bridenstine as NASA administrator. Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran and double-amputee, arrived in a wheelchair with Maile on her lap, voted no with a downturned thumb, and laughed. Her colleagues crowded around to see. (The "tea party congressman," a divisive appointee by President Trump, was confirmed narrowly in an unprecedented party-line vote, the AP reports.) Duckworth had previously tweeted a picture of Maile's outfit for the occasion, noting that she chose a jacket for the baby "so she doesn’t violate the Senate floor dress code requiring blazers."