FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020, file photo Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. listens to Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speak at a primary night election rally in Columbia, S.C. Clyburn is now the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress, the House Democratic Whip, and one of the few leaders of civil rights movement still in elected office today. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo from left, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., celebrate as they honor the late chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., by naming the committee room in the House Rayburn Office Building after the Baltimore native, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Clyburn is now the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress, the House Democratic Whip, and one of the few leaders of civil rights movement still in elected office today. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2020, file photo Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., walks to his seat before the start of the Democratic presidential primary debate at the Gaillard Center in Charleston, S.C., co-hosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2019, file photo, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., arrives to speak at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington following weekly Whip meeting. Clyburn is now the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress, the House Democratic Whip, and one of the few leaders of civil rights movement still in elected office today. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)FILE - In this April 29, 2020, file photo House Majority Whip James Clyburn of S.C., speaks alongside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., during a news conference to announce members of the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Capitol Hill in Washington. Clyburn is now the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress, the House Democratic Whip, and one of the few leaders of civil rights movement still in elected office today. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020, file photo Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. listens to Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speak at a primary night election rally in Columbia, S.C. Clyburn is now the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress, the House Democratic Whip, and one of the few leaders of civil rights movement still in elected office today. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
