Kirk to Collins: We'll Be the 'Mod Squad'
The Hill reports:
Centrist Senate Republicans are likely to get a new ally in Sen.-elect Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), according to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).
Collins, one of the most visible centrist Republicans in the Senate, told the em>Kennebec Journal< that the newly elected senator punned to her that he wanted to be a part of the Senate GOP's "Mod Squad." Columnist David B. Offer wrote:
The day after the election, Collins told me she had received a post-election telephone call from Mark Kirk, the Illinois Republican elected to fill the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama.
“I can’t wait to join your Mod Squad,” Kirk told her.
The Maine senator's comments highlight the potential tension between centrist and conservative Republican senators in the next Congress.
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