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House re-elects Boehner speaker

Originally published: January 3, 2013 1:50 PM
Updated: January 3, 2013 2:02 PM
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks

Photo credit: AP | Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff negotiations at the Capitol in Washington. (Dec. 21, 2012)

The House and Senate ushered in a new Congress Thursday, re-electing embattled Republican John Boehner speaker and hailing one of its own senators who returned a year after being felled by a stroke.

The 113th Congress convened at 12 noon EST, the constitutionally mandated time, with pomp, pageantry and politics, on both sides of the Capitol.

Boehner, bruised after weeks with his fractious...

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