Congress gains new faces, but loses centrist veterans

By Dave Weaver/The Associated Press

November 26, 2012 | 4:20 p.m. CST

Sen.-elect Deb Fischer, R-Neb., speaks in Lincoln, Neb. While Congress will become more diverse, a thinning of pragmatic, centrist veterans in both parties overrides those changes.

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