Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., on Tuesday asked House Democrats to delay a vote for the next chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee after he was admitted to the hospital for a bacterial infection.

Maloney’s caucus is scheduled to hold a private vote Wednesday regarding its leadership team before the start of the next Congress. He is a candidate to head the DCCC, which works to recruit and elect Democrats to the lower chamber.

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