House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) on Nov. 5 asked her colleagues to elect her as majority leader in the next Congress. If elected, she would be the first woman to hold the post.
“Today, with pride in what we’ve achieved and confidence in what we will deliver, I ask for your support,” Clark wrote in a letter to House Democrats.
At a press conference the day after the election, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) introduced Clark as “the next majority leader of the House of Representatives and someone who will be the first woman to ever serve in that position in our 250-year journey.”…