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House Minority Leader Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-MO) leads the newly-re-elected House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) through cheering members as the House of Representatives opens the 107th Congress in Washington, January 3, 2001. For the first time since the 1920s, Republicans will be in charge of the House for a fourth straight Congress, even if narrowly -- 221-211 with two independents and an open Democratic seat.
WASHINGTON - The sharply divided 107th Congress convened, with Democrats and Republicans preaching bipartisanship yet acknowledging it may be tough to come together to pass many new laws. With outgoing President Clinton looking on from the Senate gallery, Hillary Rodham Clinton was sworn in as the new Democratic senator from New York, becoming the first first lady to hold elected public office.
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