Kristi Noem and Tim Scott elected freshman GOP leaders

Noem and Scott will serve as the freshman class liaisons to the House leadership. Both rising stars had announced bids for the position over the past few days and were considered the two most likely to win the spot…

“We didn’t come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington,” she added.

Scott and Noem will add to the diversity of House Republicans’ leadership team. Scott, along with Rep.-elect Allen West (R-Fla.), is one of the first two African American Republicans to be elected to Congress since former Rep. J.C. Watts (Okla.) retired in 2003. Noem, meanwhile, will join Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) to become the second woman to serve on the GOP’s leadership team.