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The Senate voted 66-34 to confirm President Biden’s nomination of Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio) as secretary of Housing and Urban Development. With this confirmation, she has become the first Black woman to lead the agency in more than four decades. Patricia Harris was the first Black woman to serve in a presidential cabinet after President Jimmy Carter appointed her HUD secretary in 1977.
