New York Representative Hakeem Jeffries will become the top Democrat in the House of Representatives-and the first Black lawmaker to lead either party on Capitol Hill-when the new Congress is sworn in next year.Jeffries's unanimous election by his fellow Democratic lawmakers comes less than two weeks after the current Speaker of the House, 82-year-old Nancy Pelosi, said she would not seek another leadership term.
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