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Republicans return to Washington to sift through wreckage of midterms rout

With weeks left on the congressional calendar, House and Senate representatives have a host of issues they still need to tackle On their first day back in the Capitol after comprehensive defeats in last week’s midterm elections, Republicans were divided into two camps: those who saw the catastrophe coming, and those who did not. “I told you exactly what was going to happen. Over and over and over, I told you,” said West Virginia senator Jim Justice.

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