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After Democrats flip Senate, VT s Patrick Leahy becomes 3rd in line for the presidency
Austin Danforth, Burlington Free Press
Vermont s longest-serving U.S. Senator, Patrick Leahy, once again assumed the role of the chamber s president pro tempore on Wednesday.
The position, traditionally held by the senior-most member of the majority party, places the 80-year-old third in the presidential line of succession after the vice president and the speaker of the House.
It is one of the ripple effects of Georgia s dual Senate runoff elections earlier this month, the results of which sent Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to Washington, D.C. Their victories forge a 50-50 split with Republicans to be broken by Vice President Kamala Harris. ....

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