Boehner keeps job amid backlash

Washington's top Republican was narrowly re-elected to his powerful job as the new Congress opened for business, despite a mini-revolt in his own party over the "fiscal cliff" deal and a bruising fight over Superstorm Sandy aid.

The 113th Congress welcomed dozens of new members on Thursday to long-festering national problems, deficits and immigration among them, in an intensely partisan and crisis-driven era of divided government.
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