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Hakeem Jeffries poised to become speaker of US House of Representatives
WASHINGTON: The Democrats’ midterm election win puts Hakeem Jeffries in line to become the first Black speaker of the US House of Representatives, with the dual challenge of opposing President Donald Trump while bridging the gap between his party’s moderates and its more vocal progressives. As speaker, Jeffries, representing a New York City congressional district, would preside over a majority that will be sworn in the first week of January, taking the reins from Republicans who controlled the House for the past four years. “Today begins the great American comeback,” Jeffries proclaimed in a...
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