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    As the new Congress settles in, California's newest members are hard to ignore

    by Christine Mai-Duc, Los Angeles Times Jan 06, 2019 4 minutes

    It was nearly impossible to ignore California as a new Congress was sworn in.

    There was the moment House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield handed over the gavel to Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco Thursday. And the spectacle of the state's 53 House members filing into the chamber, some belting out the old tune "California, Here I Come."

    Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, California's seven new Democratic members, each of whom won Republican-held seats in the midterm elections and had never previously been elected to public office, commanded attention of their own. Part of the biggest cohort

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