Intense ambition and drive are what make Gallego like any other member of the Senate. It’s the rest that makes the 45-year-old Gallego an unusual fit for an institution that from the 1790s through today been dominated and mostly populated by older White men with a lot of money.

Democrat Ruben Gallego of Arizona says he hopes to work productively with Republicans and the Trump administration on tax policy and border security.

U.S. Sen.-elect Ruben Gallego will sit on the Homeland Security Committee in the new Congress that begins Friday and comes as the nation confronts the apparent terrorist attack in New Orleans. Gallego,

Arizona’s first Latino U.S. senator, Ruben Gallego, says he’s willing to work with Donald Trump’s administration on border security, echoing the Democratic Party line of tentative cooperation that emerged after an election marked by Republican wins and voter concerns over immigration.