WASHINGTON (AP) - Maine Sen. Susan Collins has been sworn in for her historic fifth term in Washington.
Collins was sworn in Sunday by Vice President Mike Pence, who offered an elbow bump instead of a handshake in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Collins defeated former Democratic Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon by 9 percentage points in November in a tough relection fight that featured astonishing levels of spending by the candidates, their allies and outside groups.
Collins was the first popularly elected U.S. senator from Maine to win a fifth term. She finished her fourth term never having missed a roll call vote.
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