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Rep. Hortman To Become Minnesota's Third Female House Speaker

DFL Representative Melissa Hortman is poised to become Minnesota's third female Speaker of the House when the legislature returns in January. The attorney from Brooklyn Park was first elected to the Minnesota House in 2004. She served as Minority Leader for the DFL caucus during the 2017-18 session. Hortman was voted Speaker Designate shortly after the DFL regained a majority in the House in the 2018 midterm election. She will be leading a caucus with nearly 20 new members in it and is part of a divided legislature, the only one in America.

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