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Commentary: We won! So, what's next for House Democrats?

Voters across the United States made a collective decision last Tuesday to put Democrats in charge of the U.S. House of Representatives. This is the first time since 2010 that Democrats have been entrusted with a House majority.

The question now is what Democrats should do with this new responsibility.

What we should not do is to react like Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell did on the cusp of the Republican wave of 2010. McConnell famously announced that his

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