Senate conservatives are pushing the limits of their influence after they were handed committee gavels in the new Republican majority.
Nearly every member of the Breakfast Club, an informal band of fiscal hawks, was doled out a chairmanship at the start of the new Congress, marking a dramatic rise to power for five men who spent years needling Senate leadership.
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