Lincoln was re-elected to the United States Senate in 2004 after receiving more than 580,000 votes, the highest total cast for a candidate to the U.S. Senate and the second highest total for a statewide candidate in Arkansas election history. Her tenure has been marked by an expanding list of accomplishments, a willingness to seek bipartisan solutions, and a fierce loyalty to the people of Arkansas and their values.

Having established her leadership on issues affecting working families and veterans, particularly those living in rural areas, she was named by Majority Leader Harry Reid as Democratic Caucus Chair of Rural Outreach. In that role, she is helping frame the majority party's initiatives to revitalize rural America, including new investments in biofuels development, farm programs, and education.

Senator Lincoln's Senate Committee assignments are perfectly suited for her home state. 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. As one of the Agriculture Committee's top-ranking Democrats, she was appointed Chair of the Production, Income Protection and Price Support Subcommittee for the 110th Congress. From these platforms, Senator Lincoln will continue as a leading voice on national priorities like health care, alternative energy, social security, tax policy, education, farm policy, hunger, nutrition, and veteran's benefits.

With an eye toward finally addressing the nation's ever increasing challenges, Lincoln is at the forefront of efforts in Congress to end partisan bickering and get results for the American people. She co-founded and currently co-chairs "The Third Way" (www.third-way.com), an organization dedicated to crafting practical and creative solutions to old problems.

She has also emerged as a national leader in the fight against hunger. Senator Lincoln founded and currently chairs the Senate Hunger Caucus to help focus the attention of her colleagues and the nation on the millions of American families, especially children, who suffer from food insecurity.

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.