Editing Bill Rompkey (section)

===Senate===
In 1995, [[Governor General of Canada]] [[Roméo LeBlanc]], on the advice of Prime Minister [[Jean Chrétien]], appointed Rompkey to the [[Senate of Canada]]. In 2001, he became Government [[parliamentary whip|Whip]] in the Senate and was deputy leader of the government in the Senate until the [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservatives]] took power in February 2006 as a result of a [[2006 Canadian federal election|federal election]]. He reached the [[mandatory retirement]] age of 75 on May 13, 2011.