The next House of Representatives will have a dozen members of Asian American and Pacific Islander descent, the largest such caucus in history.In the days after the election, inner-city schoolteacher Mark Takano flew to Washington, picked up his laptop, office key, voting ID and posed for photos with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — all part of the orientation drill for an incoming member of the 113th Congress.
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