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By Tom Moore
Mar 11, 2021
(Washington) - Now that Marcia Fudge has been confirmed, and sworn in as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, what happens next for her old seat in the U.S. House of Representatives?
First, constituents in the 11th District will still be able to receive Congressional services. Fudge s staff will stay on in the same offices until her successor is chosen.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine will have to schedule both a special primary and general election, with the winner taking over the 11th District seat. The district is heavily Democratic, and so far, only Democrats have announced their intentions.
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She s inheriting an agency in crisis after the Senate confirmed her Wednesday in a 66-34 vote.
If Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) is confirmed as housing Secretary as expected, she’ll be confronting a cascade of crises. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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The Senate confirmed Marcia Fudge as the next housing secretary in a 66-34 vote Wednesday, clearing the way for her to take on a cascade of crises: millions of people facing eviction amid a pandemic, a rise in homelessness, soaring housing prices worsening a years-long affordable housing crunch.
And when Fudge reports for work at the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Brutalist headquarters in Southwest D.C. what her predecessor Ben Carson called the “ugliest building” in the city she’ll also be taking over an agency that is itself in crisis.