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Vox Sentences: Here’s what the GOP Congress will do

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (L) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) emerge from the White House to speak to the media on November 16, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (L) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) emerge from the White House to speak to the media on November 16, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (L) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) emerge from the White House to speak to the media on November 16, 2012 in Washington, DC.
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Dylan Matthews was a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox’s Future Perfect section. He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts, economic policy and theory, and conflicts about the right way to do philanthropy.
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Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (L) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) emerge from the White House to speak to the media on November 16, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Roger Wollenberg/Getty Images)

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Portraits of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) and the former Ayatollah Khomeini outside Khomeini's shrine. (John Moore/Getty Images)

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Kody Partridge (R) and her partner Lauri Wood (L) celebrate after an act of the Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage in Utah on October 6, 2014. (George Frey/Getty Images)

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