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Great to be with you.

On a big day for you.

Thanks, Margaret.

Right.

So let's start big picture.

Republicans have unified control here in Washington, but the House Republicans have a

pretty fractured caucus, a pretty narrow majority.

How do you see that complicating the work you're able to get done over here in the Senate?

Well, we need, obviously, as you said, to get anything done, we have to work as a team.

We have unified control.

We have the majorities in the House, the Senate of the White House, but the majority in the

House is incredibly narrow, which creates some unique management challenges, but they've worked around them,

and we will work around them and work with the Trump administration, the president, his

team, on an agenda that he campaigned on and that many of our colleagues here in the Senate

and the House campaigned on.

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