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Fri, 01/22/2021 - 12:25pm

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. It’s a rare thing on Capitol Hill for a lawmaker’s team to try and play down their power. But that’s what is happening right now in the Senate. In the Joe Biden-era Senate, the balance of power is split evenly between the parties, 50-50.

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