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26 October
5:43 pm

There's only six or seven entrepreneurs left in the United States Senate

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John Hickenlooper, at Colorado U.S. Senate General Election Debate (9NEWS)

5:43 pm
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Why we checked itA specific count of senators with business-founding backgrounds; checkable against member biographies.
What we foundThe Congressional Research Service counts at least 28 senators in this Congress who have owned, founded or run a business. 'Entrepreneur' has no fixed definition, but even counting only senators who started their own companies, such as Tim Sheehy, Bernie Moreno, Rick Scott, Mark Warner, Bill Hagerty, Angus King and Tim Scott, plus Hickenlooper himself, the number is above six or seven.
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