According to Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution, each senator must be

Article I, Section 3 requires a senator to have been a citizen of the United States for at least nine years. It also requires senators to be at least 30 years old and inhabitants of the state they represent when elected. The age of 25 applies to representatives, not senators, so the correct choice is “a US citizen for at least nine years.”

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