Article posted: 11/14/2012 7:20 PM

House GOP picks woman for a top leadership post

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In this photo from November 2011, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is seen at left as House Speaker John Boehner speaks and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor listens. Rodgers was voted to the No. 4 leadership position among House Republicans on Wednesday.

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Stinging from double-digit election losses among female voters, House Republicans elected a woman to their top leadership team Wednesday in a tense test of gender politics and the clout of the GOP's power brokers.