A top Democratic lawmaker is leaving the House early in the term. His departure is a symptom of House Democrats' addiction to seniority
Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., speaks during a bill enrollment ceremony after the House passed the Respect for Marriage Act in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, December 8, 2022. The bill mandates federal protection for same-sex marriages.Rep. David Cicilline is a Very Important Democrat. He’s the Democratic leader of the House’s antitrust subcommittee, one of the chamber’s prestigious perches. In 2021, he and a team of fellow House lawmakers led the first-ever second impeachment of a president.
He enjoys regular invitations to share his thoughts on Sunday cable news shows, the coin of a realm that tunes its news cycle to those soundbites. , just a few months into his term, to serve as the president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation, one of the country’s longest-running philanthropic foundations., a body long viewed as hostile toward ambitious lawmakers eager to scale the ranks.
Cicilline nevertheless announced a run against Clyburn during last year’s House leadership elections. He cited the need for LBGTQ representation within the Democrats’ top ranks — especially in the aftermath of a gay nightclub shooting in Colorado, which had happened just days earlier. “It cannot be that people look to the House Democratic leadership and not see representation in the LGBTQ community,” he says. “It would be, I think, really harmful.
It was a short-lived challenge, and one Cicilline claims was never serious, but rather, “to put a marker down, understanding that, at some point, I expect he’s going to leave,” Cicilline tells me in his office on Friday afternoon. Then, the opportunity with the Rhode Island Foundation arrived — one that, in Cicilline’s estimation, has more impact on his constituents than “any elected office.”
Instead of waiting for the possibility he could someday ascend the ladder, Cicilline, like lawmakers before him, departs the House for other chances to make his mark.
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