Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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Would he stay with the Dems, as he insisted he would, and become the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee?

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Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, the chairman and ranking minority member, respectively, of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and especially that of Rep. Pete King, Sen.

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