WASHINGTON D.C., Mich. (WILX) - On Friday, Michigan Democrat Elissa Slotkin officially became a United States senator. She took the oath of office in Washington, D.C., as the 119th U.S. Congress began ...

This is the first time Michigan has had a new U.S. Senator sworn in a decade after Senator Gary Peters was sworn into his post for the first time in 2015.

The Michigan Democrat was sworn in on Friday, nearly two months after being elected to the Senate over Republican Mike Rogers.