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Late in the afternoon of Jan. 22, Michael Bennet will officially have served in the Senate longer than anyone elected from Colorado in the last 50 years, the equivalent of two full terms. On that date in 2009, Bennett was sworn in as the junior senator from Colorado by then-Vice President Joe Biden, filling the seat vacated by then-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. He's been reelected to full terms twice since, most recently in 2016. Bennet's tenure at that point will be a milestone for the Denver Democrat and for the state, which currently holds an unhappy distinction in the Senate. ...