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Mark Richardson (D) is the leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing a New York district that includes parts of Brooklyn.

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He often butted heads with the White House over issues where they assumed the black caucus would not be an issue. He voted against a crime bill after Leo McGarry failed to convince him to help out, and only supported the veto of the Estate Tax Cut after a meeting with Toby Ziegler.

He opposed the U.S. involvement in Kundu until Toby was able to release a statement saying that, while Bartlet doesn't support the draft, he will consider Richardson's amendment to reinstate the draft, which Richardson used as a posturing point to point out that blacks were disproportionately being killed in the military due to the economic status.

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