This traction on the retina, which is painless, sends a sensation of light to the brain that we see as flashers. People typically describe these as non-colored sparkles of light in one corner of the field of vision, usually affecting one eye.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond celebrated his 100th birthday in the U.S. Senate in December 2002; New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg is the oldest current U.S. senator; he is to turn 89 next month.
Who currently is the youngest U.S. senator? Tom Cotton, elected in 2014 to serve in the U.S. Senate from Arkansas, is the youngest member of the Senate in the 114th Congress. Cotton was 37 years old at the time of his election to the Senate.