Governor Bill Halter with an early endorsement from former President and Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton, Lincoln lost in November 2010 to Republican congressman John Boozman by a landslide, 58% to 37%. Caucuses and committees In 2004, Lincoln co-founded the Senate Hunger Caucus. The caucus was established to provide a bi-partisan forum for Senators and staff to discuss, advance and engage the Senate's work on national and international hunger and food insecurity issues. Lincoln also helped form the Moderate Dems Working Group, a coalition of moderate Senate Democrats whose stated goal is to work with Senate leadership and the administration toward finding bipartisan solutions to controversial political issues. In addition, she co-founded and currently co-chairs Third Way, a moderate think-tank whose self-described goals are "an economic agenda that is focused on growth and middle class success; a culture of shared values; a national security approach that is both tough and smart; and a clean energy revolution." Lincoln served on the Senate Finance Committee; Special Committee on Aging; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Social Security Task Force; Rural Health Caucus; Senate New Democrat Coalition and chair of the Rural Outreach for the Senate Democratic Caucus. On September 9, 2009, she became Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee. In the Committee’s 184-year history, she was the first Arkansan and the first woman to serve as Chairman. After Congress Lincoln remained in Washington after her re-election loss in November 2010, working as Special Policy Advisor at the firm of Alston & Bird. In 2011 Lincoln became chair of Small Business for Sensible Regulations, a project of the National Federation of Independent Business. In July 2013, Lincoln founded her own political consulting firm called Lincoln Policy Group. Electoral history See also Women in the United States Senate References External links Blanche Lincoln 2010 Reelection Campaign Website (archived) Senator Blanche Lincoln Official Senate Website (archived) |- |- |- |- 1960 births 21st-century American politicians 21st-century American women politicians American Episcopalians Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas Democratic Party United States senators from Arkansas Female members of the United States House of Representatives Female United States senators Living people People from Helena, Arkansas University of Arkansas alumni Women in Arkansas politics Randolph–Macon College alumni Members of Congress who became lobbyists