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The Monday editions of ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News aired news briefs on the announcement that Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski will not seek a sixth term in the Senate in 2016 and instead retire. In their coverage, however, they both failed to label Mikulski a liberal and heaped only effusive praise on the senior Senator from Maryland.
On ABC, anchor David Muir hailed the announcement as “the end of an era in Washington” for the 78-year old “longest serving woman in Congress” who was “the daughter of a grocer.”