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A lifetime of firsts – Florida Courier

The following is Harris’ political biography as printed on her Senate website. In 2017, Kamala D. Harris was sworn in as a United States senator for California, the second African American woman and first South Asian American senator in history. She serves on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Select Committee on Intelligence, […]

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